BABU BANARASI DAS

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Physics
Assignment (Unit II)
1. What are matter waves? Derive an expression for the wavelength associated
with a particle of mass m and Kinetic energy E.
2. Write a short note on wave particle duality with examples of a suitable
experiment.
3. Show that the phase velocity of de Broglie wave is greater than the velocity
of light, but the group velocity is equal to the velocity of the particle with
which the waves are associated.
4. What is the physical significance of wave function? Derive time dependent
and independent Schrodinger wave equation.
5. What is the energy of a gamma photon having a wavelength of 1 .
6. What is the uncertainty in the momentum of an electron which is restricted
to a region of linear dimension equal to 1 ?
7. A particle of rest mass m0 has a kinetic energy K. Show that its de Broglie
wavelength is given by:
=hc/{K(K+2moc2)}1/2
8. Derive the expression of phase velocity
vp=c{1+(moc/h)2}1/2
9. An electron has de Broglie wavelength 2x10 -12m. Find its kinetic energy.
Also find the wave velocity the phase and group velocities of its de Broglie
waves.
10. Hydrogen atom has the radius of 0.5 . Calculate the kinetic energy needed
by an electron to be confined to the atom.
11. Find the energy of an electron moving in one dimension in an infinitely high
potential box of width 1 (mass of the electron is 9.11x10 -31 kg and
h= 6.63x10-34 J-s).
12. A particle is confined to move in a box of length 2 whose ends are at x=0
and x=2 . What is the probability of finding the particle between 1.6000
and 1.6001 . Calculate for n=1.