Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur-721302, West Bengal, India

Thursday 6th August, 2015

Total Marks: 100

Subject No. PH20003(PHYSICS II)

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Assignment Due date : 14 August 2015

Assignment # 2
1. Answer the following questions

in radius. Estimate the minimum energy an electron can have in this

(a) A hydrogen atom is 0.53 A
atom. [use Heisenberg uncertainty principle]
(b) Estimate the lowest energy of a neutron confined in one-dimensional infinitely high potential box
of length 1014 m.

2. Consider the wave function (x) = C x e(x/2a) , where C is normalization constant, describes a
particle in the range (0, ). Find the expectation value for x and x2 , and most probable value of x
where probability density is maximum.
3. A particle is located in a 1-D square potential well of width L with absolutely impenetrable walls

(0 < x < L).

Find the probability of staying within a region L/3 x 2L/3, for the particle (a) in the ground
state, (b) in the first excited state.
4. A particle of mass m moves in a potential well of width 2a. Its potential energy is infinite for

x < a & x > +a. Inside the region, a < x < a, its potential energy is given by
h2 a2
U (x) = m a
2 (a2 x2 ) . In addition, the particle is in a stationary state that is described by the wavefunction (x) = A(1 x2 /a2 ) for a < x < +a and by (x) = 0 elsewhere.
(a) Show that A = (15/16a)1/2
(b) Determine the energy of the particle in terms of h
, m and a.
(c) Find the probability that the particle is located between x = a/3 & x = a/3.
5. A photon with wavelength is absorbed by an electron confined to a box having infinite potential

wall. As a result, the electron moves from state n = 1 to n = 4.

(a) Find the width of the box.
(b) What is the wavelength of the photon emitted in the transition of that electron from the state
n = 4 to the state n = 2?
6. In a 1-D potential barrier (potential height V0 , and length L) problem, A particle of mass m having

energy E > V0 coming from . Using boundary condition solve for R & T which will be a function
of length of the potential barrier.
R=

(k12 k22 )2 sin2 k2 L

4k12 k22 +(k12 k22 )2 sin2 k2 L

T =

4k12 k22
2
2
2
4k1 k2 +(k1 k22 )2

sin2 k2 L

where k1 =

2mE
;
h2

and k2 =

2m(EV0 )
h2