513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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In a semiconductor where the bottom of the conduction band is at k = 0, an electron moves with a wavenumber k = 800000000 m-1. If the effective mass of electrons in the conduction band is 0.5 m, what is the energy of this electron measured from the bottom of the conduction band?

E = eV