The WKB approximation is given by
where
We may rewrite the above as
or, making the substitution,
and
Using the fact that
and that
we obtain
We now observe that
so that
and
We thus obtain
or
This equation simplifies to
We may now easily solve for
obtaining
Note that this is exactly the spectrum that we would obtain from an exact solution of the Coulomb problem.
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