University of the Philippines

College of Science
PHYSICS 73
Long Problem Set 3

1
st
semester
AY 2010 - 2011
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INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the best answer and shade the corresponding circle in
your answer sheet. To change your answer, cross-out and sign your original
answer and then shade your new answer.

USEFUL CONSTANTS:
Mass of electron: 9.11 x 10
-31
kg
Charge of electron: 1.6 x 10
-19
C
1eV = 1.6 x 10
-19
J
h = 6.626 x 10
-34
J s
= 1.05 x 10
-34
J s

Meeting 29

1. In the photoelectric effect, which of the following quantities will increase as the intensity
of the light incident on the metal increases?
a. Photocurrent
b. Stopping potential
c. Wavelength of the incident light
d. Frequency of the incident light
e. Maximum kinetic energy of the photoelectrons

2. Silver has a work function of 4.3 eV. What would be the frequency of the light incident on
this metal surface for the stopping potential to be equal to 3.0 V?
a. 2.32 x 10
15
Hz
b. 1.76 x 10
15
Hz
c. 3.45 x 10
15
Hz
d. 1.29 x 10
15
Hz
e. 4.39 x 10
15
Hz

3. What is the momentum of a photon of blue light (wavelength 470 nm)?
a. 2.45 x 10
-27
kg m/s
b. 3.74 x 10
-27
kg m/s
c. 1.41 x 10
-27
kg m/s
d. 4.23 x 10
-27
kg m/s
e. 5.38 x 10
-27
kg m/s

Meeting 30
4. In an x-ray tube, electrons are accelerated up to a voltage of 2.48 kV. What is the
wavelength of the x-rays produced by this tube?
a. 0.05 nm
b. 0.5 nm
c. 0.005 nm
d. 5 nm
e. 0.0005 nm
5. An x-ray is scattered over an angle of 45 degrees. What is the difference between the
wavelengths of the incident and scattered x ray?
a. 0.711 pm
b. 4.14 pm
c. 0.113 pm
d. 0.659 pm
e. 1.71 pm


6. The difference between the wavelengths of an incident and a scattered x-ray is equal to
one-fourth the value of the ratio h/mc. What is the value of the scattering angle?
a. 20.7
0
b. 10.4
0
c. 41.4
0

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d. 75.5
0
e. 5.2
0


Meeting 31

7. In the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, what is the lowest possible energy that can be
occupied by an electron orbiting the nucleus?
a. 13.6 eV
b. -3.40 eV
c. 1.51 eV
d. -13.6 eV
e. -1.51 eV

8. An electron orbiting a hydrogen nucleus makes a transition from the sixth excited state to
the first excited state. What is the wavelength of the photon emitted by the atom when the
electron makes this transition?
a. 294 nm
b. 307 nm
c. 0.938 nm
d. 0.585 nm
e. 397 nm

9. The radius of the orbit of an electron in a hydrogen atom is equal to 1.32 nm. What is the
angular momentum of an electron occupying this orbit?
a. 5.275 x 10
-34
J s
b. 4.220 x 10
-34
J s
c. 3.165 x 10
-34
J s
d. 2.110 x 10
-34
J s
e. 1.055 x 10
-34
J s

Meeting 32

10. An American Major League Baseball pitcher can throw pitches that can reach speeds of
up to 100 miles per hour, or 44.7 meters per second. If a baseball whose mass is 0.145 kg is
thrown at this speed, what is its de Broglie wavelength?
a. 6.63 x 10
-34
m
b. 3.31 x 10
-34
m
c. 1.02 x 10
-34
m
d. 2.25 x 10
-34
m
e. 4.48 x 10
-34
m

11. A particle with mass 1.5 x 10
-25
kg is moving with speed b = 0.90. What is its de Broglie
wavelength?
a. 5.7 nm
b. 3.3 nm
c. 4.9 nm
d. 2.1 nm
e. 1.0 nm

12. A consequence of the wave-particle duality is that electrons can be:

a. Multiplied
b. Divided
c. Transmitted
d. Diffracted
e. Insulated
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Meeting 33

13. According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which of the following situations
cannot physically happen?
a. An electron's position can be determined with certainty.
b. An electron's momentum can be determined with certainty.
c. An electron's momentum cannot be determined with certainty.
d. a and b simultaneously
e. a and c simultaneously

14. A particle's momentum is measured to be 2.55 kg m/s, with an error in measurement of
0.638 kg m/s. If the position of the particle is measured at the same instant that this
momentum measurement was made, what would be the smallest error in the measurement of
the particle's position?
a. 6.63 x 10
-34
m
b. 5.28 x 10
-35
m
c. 2.11 x 10
-34
m
d. 0.638 m
e. 8.27 x 10
-35
m

15. In a single-slit diffraction experiment, the width of the slit is measured to be 0.100 nm.
What is the minimum value of the uncertainty in the momentum of a photon that enters this
slit?
a. 5.28 x 10
-25
kg m/s
b. 1.04 x 10
-24
kg m/s
c. 2.11 x 10
-44
kg m/s
d. 3.25 x 10
-24
kg m/s
e. 4.48 x 10
-30
kg m/s

Meeting 34

16. Consider a free particle with definite momentum. Which of the following solutions to the
time-independent Schrodinger equation for this system describes this state?
a. Ae
ikx
+ Ae
ik'x

b. Ae
ikx

c. Ae
-kx

d. Ax
2

e. Ax+B

17. What would be the probability density function for a solution to the time-independent
Schrodinger equation for a given system whose explicit form is


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18. If the wave function is normalized, what is the probability of finding the state described
by the wave function somewhere in space?
a. 0
b. 0.5
c. 0.25
d. 1
e. p/2

Meeting 35

For the next four questions: A particle is constrained to move at constant speed between two
walls x=0.00 cm and x=7.00 cm. It has a constant probability density inside the walls and
zero outside it.

19. What is the probability density?
a. ()(cm
-1
)
b. 0.125 cm
-1

c. 0 cm
-1

d. e
ikx
cm
-1

e. 0.143 cm
-1


20. What is the probability that the particle is between 3.00 cm and 7.00 cm?
a.
b. 1/7
c. 0
d. 1
e. 0.57

21. A particle is described by the wavefunction

Normalize the wavefunction. That is, find A in terms of a and b.
a. A = (3/b)
1/2

b. A = (3/a)
1/2

c. A = (3ab)
1/2

d. A = (3a/b)
1/2

e. A = 3/ab

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Meeting 36

22. Determine the mass of a free particle whose wave function is in the plane wave
(x,t) = A exp(i( 2.5 x 10
11
m
-1
x (2.1 x 10
13
Hz) t)
A. 1.56 x 10
-25
kg
B. 9.80 x 10
-25
kg
C. 2.48 x 10
-26
kg
D. 5.28 x 10
-35
kg
E. 28 x 10
-37
kg

23. The state of a particle is given by (x) = A
1
+ B
2
, where
1
and
2
are solutions to the
time-independent Schrodinger equation with energies E
1
and E
2
respectively. Which of the
following statements is true?
a. Measuring the energy of the particle will yield E
1
+ E
2

b. Measuring the energy of the particle will always give a value E
1
.
c. Measuring the energy of the particle will always give a value E
2
.
d. Measuring the energy will give a value of both E
1
and E
2
.
e. The particle has no definite energy.

24. The time-independent Schrodinger equation is actually an eigenvalue equation where the
solution wavefunction is the eigenfunction. Which of the following observables correspond
to the eigenvalue of ?
a. position
b. momentum
c. energy
d. frequency
e. Plancks constant

Meeting 37

25. Consider an electron trapped in a one-dimensional infinite square well with boundaries at
x = -L/2 and x = L/2. What is the value of the energy at the 2
nd
excited state?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

For the next two questions: Let
n
(x) be the energy eigenfunctions of the infinite square well
of width L, and energy E
n
. Suppose that a particle in the square well was prepared in the state
(t= 0.00 s)
(x, t=0.00 s) = cos(45)
1
(x) + sin(45)cos(30)
2
(x) + sin(45)sin(30)
3
(x)

26. What is the probability amplitude that the particle is at the 2
nd
excited state?
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A. 0.3536
B. 0.7071
C. 0.6124
D. 0.1250
E. 0.3750

27. What is the probability of finding the particle in the first excited state?
A. 0.3536
B. 0.7071
C. 0.6124
D. 0.1250
E. 0.3750

Meeting 38

The following three problems will be about the finite square well of width L, height U
0
. If the
height of the well U
0
= 6E

, where E

= (h
2
)/(8mL
2
), then the first three eigenenergies are
known to be E
1
=0.625 E

, E
2
= 2.43 E

, E
3
= 5.09 E

.

28. What would happen to the number of bound states as the depth of a finite square well
increases?

a. The number of bound states increases.
b. The number of bound states remains the same.
c. The number of bound states decreases.
d. The number of bound states are reduced by half.
e. The number of bound states would fluctuate between two values.

29. Electron in a finite square well. An electron is assumed to be modeled by a particle in a
1D finite square well of width 1.50 nm. If the electron is in the ground state, what maximum
wavelength can a photon have and still liberate the electron?

A. 345 nm
B.1259 nm
C. 520 nm
D. 2974 nm
E. 1.36 x 10
-5
m

30. Proton in a finite square well. A proton is bound in a square well of width 4.0 fm = 4.0 x
10
-15
m. The depth of the well is six times the ground level energy E of the corresponding
infinite well. The proton makes a transition from the level with energy E
1
to the level with
energy E3, by absorbing a photon. What is the energy of this photon?

A. 12.8 MeV
B. 1.33 MeV
C. 76.8 MeV
D. 10.9 MeV
E. 5.79 MeV

Meeting 39
Tunneling formulae:


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31. An electron is moving past the square barrier shown on the right, but with E greater than
the barrier height U0. If E=2U
0
, what is the ratio of the DeBroglie wavelength of the electron
in the region x> L to the wavelength for 0<x<L?

A. 1: 2
B. 1: (2)
1/2

C. 2:1
D. (2)
1/2
:1
E. none of the above

32. An electron encounters a barrier with length L and depth that is the half the electrons
kinetic energy 2U
0
=E
0
. What is the corresponding transmission probability?
A. (1/16)E
0

B. 1
C. 16 E
0

D. E
0

E. 2E
0


33. which of the following will increase the tunnelling probability?
a. increasing the energy of the particle
b. increasing the width of the barrier
c. increasing the mass of the particle
d. increasing the height of the barrier
e. increasing the charge of the particle

Meeting 40

34. The 3
rd
excited state of a particle in a 1D harmonic oscillator potential is
a. 3/2
b. 3
c. 5/2
d. 7/2
e. 2

35. The ground state energy of a harmonic oscillator is 5.60 eV. If it undergoes a transition
from its n = 3 to its n = 2 state by emitting a photon, what is the wavelength of the photon?
a. 111 nm
b. 222 nm
c. 333 nm
d. 444 nm
e. 1.77 x 10
-26
m

36. Which of the following statements is false?
a. the ground state energy for the classical harmonic oscillator is zero.
b. the ground state energy for the quantum harmonic oscillator is nonzero.
c. the energies of both Newtonian and Quantum harmonic oscillators are quantized.
d. there is a nonzero probability for the quantum harmonic oscillator to exist at |x| > A where
A is its classical amplitude.
e. it is impossible to find a classical oscillator outside its classical amplitude A.

Meeting 41
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37. Consider an electron in a 3D particle in a box with equal lengths along x, y and z.
Describe the degeneracy for the 3
rd
excited state.
a. non degenerate
b. doubly degenerate
c. triply degenerate
d. four-fold degeneracy
e. six-fold degeneracy

38. What would be the ground state energy for a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator?
A.
2
1

B.
C.
2
3

D. 0
E. 2

39. Degenerate? The energy eigenfunctions of the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator
may be labeled by three quantum numbers, n
1
, n
2
, and n
3
. The allowed values of each
quantum number are the set of positive integers and 0. If the energy is given by
E= (n
1
+n
2
+n
3
+3/2) h/( 2)
What is the degree of degeneracy of the 1
st
excited state?

A. nondegenerate
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

Meeting 42

40. Consider a hydrogen atom whose state at t=0 is described by the following wave function


What is the probability that a measurement of the square of the total angular momentum
yields 2.22 x 10
-68
kg
2
m
4
/s
2
?
A. 0.867
B. 0.750
C. 1.183
D. 0.500
E. 3.34 x 10
-4


41. Degeneracy. How many states correspond to the 3
rd
excited energy level of a Hydrogen
atom if there is no external magnetic field present and spin is neglected?
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A. 1
B. 4
C. 16
D. 3
E. 9

42. Orbital angular momentum. What is the minimum angle between L and L
z
if l =
4?
A. 116.55
0

B. 63.44
0

C. 26.56
0

D. 47.87
0

E. 42.13
0

Meeting 43

43. The Zeeman effect in hydrogen may be regarded as evidence of quantization of ______:
A. the square of the angular momentum,
B. the angular momentum in the z direction
C. energy
D. kinetic energy
E. potential energy

44. Consider a hydrogen atom exposed in a uniform external magnetic field. Which set of
quantum numbers describe the 4
th
excited state if spin is neglected?
a. n = 4, l = 0, m
l
= 0
b. n = 3, l = 0, m
l
= 0
c. n = 2, l = 1, m
l
= 0
d. n = 2, l = 1, m
l
= -1
e. n = 2, l = 1, m
l
= 1

Meeting 44

45. Consider a two electron system in 1 dimension. Let (x,+;y,+) be the probability density
amplitude of the finding the first electron at x with spin up, and the second electron at y with
spin up. Which of the following functional forms (choices A to D) for this probability
amplitude is impossible?

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A. (x,+;y,+) =A exp(-x
2
-y
2
)
B. (x,+;y,+) =A exp(-x
2
+2x-y
2
)- A exp(-x
2
+2y-y
2
)
C. (x,+;y,+)= Aexp(-x
3
-y
2
)- Aexp(-y
3
-x
2
)
D. (x,+;y,+)= Asin(3x)sin(2x)-Asin(3y)sin(2x)
E. all of the above are allowed






END OF EXAM