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Student Number 77 _

3. (10 points) 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 eY.
Calculate the work function and threshold frequency of silver.

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230 ri m = 2300 A

E.j / {eV} z; 12'3 rf - 5.51' eY

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4. (10 points) The length of hexatriene is about 867 pm. Show that the free
electron model predicts that the first electronic transition occurs at 2.8x104 em-I.

2-
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- a 2- z: 7 5· 16 S' t

1::=",= (). S-o o~'Z. (eV)

(j.oo ey
hv =: E4-E y
4.,s-oo eV

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1 eV

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Student Number 7 _
5. (10 points) Calculate the speed of the electron in the first Bohr orbit.
Express your result as a fraction of the speed of light.

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1.054-~73X/o
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Student Number 7T _
6. (10 points) Suppose a system is described by a wavefunction of the form
eo

'¥ (x, 0) = L Cnlf/n (x) where If/n is an eigenfunction of the Schrodinger equation with
n=O

eigenvalue E/1

a. If you measured the energy of the system what values would you find?

b. How would you compute the total energy?

E I e,.;17 EN
f'/=D

c. Determine '¥(x,t)

t-
Y! (x/ t) ~ z:
N=o
OQ

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