Tutorial Questions CHM3101- Quantum Theory

1. To what speed must a photon be accelerated for it to have a wavelength of 3.0 cm?
2. Calculate the linear momentum of photons of wavelength 350 nm. What speed does a
hydrogen molecule need to travel to have the same linear momentum?
3. The speed of a certain electron is 995 km/s. If the uncertainty in its momentum is to be
reduced to 0.001 percent, what uncertainty in its location must be tolerated?
4. Calculate the energy per photon and the energy per mole of photons for radiation of
wavelength 200 nm.
5. A photon-powered spacecraft of mass 10 kg emits radiation of wavelength 225 nm with
a power of 1.5 kW entirely in the backward direction. To what speed will it have
accelerated after 10 year if released into free space?
6. The work function for metallic rubidium is 2.09 eV. Calculate the kinetic energy & the
speed of electrons ejected by light of wavelength 650 nm.
7. An electron is confined to a linear region with a length of the same order as the diameter
of an atom (about 100 pm). Calculate the minimum uncertainties in its position & speed.
8. An unnormalized wavefuntion for an electron in a carbon nanotube of length L is
sin(2x/L). Normalize this wavefunction.
9. For the system described in question 7, what is the probability of finding the electron in
the dx at x=L/2?
10. Calculate the energy separations in Joules between the levels (a) n=3 and n=1; (b) n=6
and n=7 of an electron in a box of length 1.5 nm.