What is the equilibrium position of the particle

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We are going to investigate the feasibility of treating atoms as harmonic oscillators, even if their potential wells are not parabolic. Consider a particle in one dimension that has potential energy V(x) = -V0.

(a) What is the equilibrium position of the particle? (I.e., where is V(x) a minimum?)

(b) Write out the Taylor series expansion for V(x) about the equilibrium position, keeping only the zeroth, first, and second order terms in x. (Note that this makes it a harmonic oscillator.)

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