Practice question, CY-2302

1. Calculate the speed of an electron of wavelength 3.0 cm.

2. Determine the wavelength of the most intense electromagnetic radiation emitted

from the surface of a star which has a surface temp of 11000 k.

3. Calculate the linear momentum of a photon of wavelength 750 nm, what speed
does an electron need to travel to have the same linear momentum.

4. A photon of wavelength 4000 Å strikes a metal surface, the work function of the
metal being 2.13 eV. Calculate (i) the energy of the photon in eV and (ii) the kinetic
energy of the emitted photoelectron.

5. When a clean surface of silver is irradiated with light of wavelength 230 nm, the
kinetic energy of the ejected electron is found to be 0.805 eV. Calculate the work
function (in eV) and the threshold frequency of silver metal.

6. Describe the experiment which proves the particle character of light waves

7. Describe the Bohr postulates of hydrogen atom

8. Calculate the total power (in Watt) radiated by a 5.0 cm x 2.0 cm section of the
surface of a hot body at 6000 K (Given, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, a = 56.7 nW
m-2K-4).

9. Describe the Einstein model used for explaining the temperature dependant heat
capacity curve of monoatomic solids.

10. Estimate the wavelength of an electron that has been accelerated from rest
through a potential difference of 40kV.

11. Determine the normalization constant, N, for the wavefunction() for particle in
im l 
a ring of the form,   Ne

12. -carotene a highly conjugated polyene, shows maximum absorption of light at

480 nm. If this absorption corresponds to a transition from translational quantum
number n = 11 to n = 12 of an  electron in the molecule. What is the approximate
length of the molecule?
13. Given that the general form of the normalized wavefunction for a particle in a box
model is
1/ 2
 2   nx 
 n
   sin   where L = length of the box, n = quantum number and
 L   L 
x = position
Plot the wavefunctions for the ground state and 1stexciated state. Indicate the
wavelength (in terms of L) and the number of nodes present in each wavefunction.
14. Justify that the existence of zero point energy for a particle in a one dimensional
box is in accordance with the uncertainty principle.

15. What is the probability of finding a particle of mass m in (a) left hand one third,
(b) Central one third and (c) right hand one third of a box of length L when it is in
the state with n=1.

16. The blue solution formed when an alkali metal dissolves in liquid NH3 consists of
the metal cations and e- trapped in a cavity formed by NH3 molecule. For such a
electron (a) Calculate the spacing between the level with n=4 and n=5 of an
electron in a 1D box of length 5.0 nm.(b) What is the wavelength of the radiation
emitted when the e- makes a transition between the two levels

17. Treat the HI molecule as a stationary I atom around which an H atom circulates in
a plane at a distance of 161 pm. Calculate the longest wavelength of radiation that
can excite the molecule into rotation.

18. If the symmetric O-H stretching vibrational frequency of water occurs at 3657 cm-
1. Predict the vibrational frequency (in cm-1) of O-D stretch in D2O. Assume that the

molecule is an ideal harmonic oscillator and that the force constant does not
change upon isotopic substitution. The reduced mass of O-H and O-D bonds are
0.9412 and 1.1778 g/mol respectively.

19. State the orbital degeneracy of the levels in a hydrogen atom that have a energy (a)
-hcRH, (b) -hcRH/9 and (c) -hcRH/25.

20. Locate the radial node in the 3s orbital of Hydrogen atom.

21. The complete wavefunction representing a particular orbital in hydrogen atom is
given by
5

3/2
2  1   / 3 r
 (r , , )    ( 6   sin  sin   
2
)e where
 
81   a0  a0

(a) How many radial node(s) exist in the wavefunction? (b) Identify the angular
nodal plane. (c) Sketch the radial wavefunction. (d) Sketch the radial distribution
function and in the sketch indicate the position of the most probable radius for this
orbital (no calculation required). (e) What is the magnitude of the angular
momentum of an electron present in this orbital? (f) What are the values of the z-
component of the angular momentum? (g) Identify the orbital.
22. What is the orbital angular momentum of an electron in the orbitals 4d, 2P and 3P.
Give the number of radial and angular nodes.