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FIFTH SEMESTER B.Sc. (CBCSS) DEGREE EXAMINATIONS,

NOVEMBER 2021
(Regular – 2019 Admission)
Physics
PHY5 B07: Quantum Mechanics

Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 60

(The symbols used in this question paper have their usual meanings)

I. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences

(Each question carries 2 Marks): (Ceiling 20 Marks)
1. What are the laws of photoelectric emission?
2. Write down Planck’s Radiation formula.
3. Why Compton effect does not occur with visible light?
4. Write the shortest wavelength present in the Brackett series of spectral lines.
5. What are the findings of Frank- Hertz experiment?
6. What is meant by expectation value?
7. State and explain Heisenberg’s uncertainty relation.
8. Explain quantum tunnelling.
9. What is meant by eigen function and eigen value?
10. Write about spatial quantization.
11. What is angular momentum quantum number? Write its possible values.
12. Mention about principal quantum number. What is its physical significance?

II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph

(Each question carries 5 Marks): (Ceiling 30 Marks)
13. Calculate the work function of sodium, in electron-volts, given that the threshold
wavelength is 6800 Å and h = 6.625 x 10-34 Js.
14. Which of the following wave functions cannot be solutions of Schrodinger’s equation for
all values of 𝑥? Why not?
(a) 𝜓 = 𝐴 𝑠𝑒𝑐 𝑥
(b) 𝜓 = 𝐴 𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑥
2
(c) 𝜓 = 𝐴𝑒 𝑥
2
(d) 𝜓 = 𝐴𝑒 −𝑥
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15. An electron is bound to a region of space by a spring like force with an effective spring
constant of 𝑘 = 89.5 eV/nm2.
(a) What is its ground-state energy?
(b) How much energy must be absorbed for the electron to jump from the ground state to
the second excited state?
16. Obtain the relation between phase velocity and group velocity for de Broglie waves.
𝑔
Certain ocean waves travel with a phase velocity 𝑣𝑝 = , where 𝑔 is the acceleration
2𝜋
due to gravity. What is the group velocity of a ‘wave packet’ of these waves?
17. Find the de Broglie wavelength associated with
(a) a 50 g golf ball with velocity 60 m/s
(b) an electron with a velocity 107 m/s
Which of these two show wave character and why?
18. A sample of a certain element is placed in a 0.500 T magnetic field and suitably excited.
How far apart are the Zeeman components of the 480 nm spectral line of this element?
19. Verify that the average value of 1/r for a 1s electron in the hydrogen atom is 1/a 0.

III. Write an essay on any one of the following: (1 x 10 = 10 Marks)

20. State the postulates of Bohr atom model. Obtain expressions for the radius and electron
energy of the nth orbit. Explain how Bohr’s atom model successfully accounts for the
hydrogen spectrum.
21. Obtain Schrodinger wave equation for a particle in one dimensional rigid box. Solve it
to obtain normalized eigen functions and show that the eigen values are discrete.