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Publications and source records attributed to Rodney O. Weber.
An infinite sequence of potential well functions is considered. A numerical method is used for the Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger equation to obtain the energy eigenvalue spectra for a number of these potential well functions. The results for the ground state energy are compared to a trial function method. The energy eigenvalue spectra are as one would expect although most of them have not been previously reported.
An infinite sequence of potential well functions is considered. A trial wavefunction is used with the Schr$\ddot{\text{o}}$dinger equation to obtain an approximate ground state energy for each potential well function. We obtain an expression that is exactly correct for the harmonic potential, has an intuitively correct form for all of our potential well functions and can be understood to be a partitioning of the ground state energy into two parts, one kinetic and one potential.