Department of Quantum Optics – VNU - HUS

QUANTUM NATURE OF LIGHT

1.
A black body has temperature of 2900K. After the cooling process, the wavelength at maximum of
the thermal radiation spectrum is changed by =9m. What is the temperature of the body before
cooling process?

2.
Calculate the mass reduction of the Sun for one year. Assume the radiation of the Sun is constant.
Given the tmperature at surface of the Sun is 5800K and the radius of the Sun is 6.59 x 108m.

3.
1 cm2 of the ground surface loses 0.13 calo for 1 minute due to radiation. What is the temperature
of a black body when it loses the same energy with the same area and duration?

4.
What is the temperature of an oven if a hole of size 6.1cm2 on the oven emits 8.28 calo per second?
Assume that the emission of the oven is similar to a black body.

5.
The temperature of a filament of a bulb is always changed since it is burned by an AC current. The
difference between the maximum and minimum temperature is 80K. The everage temperature is
2300K. What is the ratio between the maximum and the minimum of the radiarion power, if
Volfram filament is assumed to be a black body?

6.
In studying the spectrum of solar radiation, radiation was found carrying a maximum energy at
wavelength max=0.48m. Assume that the Sun is an ideal black body. Calculate:
a. The total radiated power of the Sun.
b. The energy density received on the ground. The solar radius is 6.59 x 108 m, and the distance
from Earth to the Sun is: 1.5 x1011m.

7.
The spectral composition of solar radiation is much the same as that of a black body whose
maximum emission corresponds to the wavelength 0.48 m. Find the mass lost by the Sun every
second due to radiation. Evaluate the time interval during which the mass of the Sun diminishes by
1 per cent.

8.
In a Compton effect, the wavelength of the incident light is λ. Calculate kinetic energy of the
electron with the scattered angle of . What is the momentum of the scattered electron?

9.
A photon with energy  = 250 keV is scattered at an angle  =120 ° by a stationary free electron.
Find the energy of the scattered photon.

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10.
Find the wavelength of X-ray radiation if the maximum kinetic energy of Compton electrons is
Tmax= 0.19 MeV.

11.
A small ideal mirror of mass m =10 mg is suspended by a weightless thread of length .
Find the angle through which the thread will be deflected when a short laser pulse with energy
E=13 J is shot in the horizontal direction at right angles to the mirror. Where does the mirror get its
kinetic energy?

12.

Photon of wavelength 8.4 pm is scattered at right angles by a stationary free electron. Find:

(a) the frequency of the scattered photon;

(b) the kinetic energy of the Compton electron.

13.

A photon with energy is scattered by a stationary free electron changing its

wavelength by Δλ= 3.0 pm. Find the angle at which the Compton electron.

14.
The photoelectric threshold for volfram is 0.275m. Calculate :

a) Work function of Volfram.

b) The maximum energy of photoelectic electron scattered from Volfram if the wavelength of
the incident photon is 0.180m.
c) The maximum velocity of the electron.