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DEBRE TABOR UNIVERSITY

GAFAT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY


DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Applied Modern Physics (ECEg 3042) Worksheet- Two

1. Find the de-Broglie wave length of a bullet of mass 5 gm moving with a velocity 20
km/hr
2. Determine the de-Broglie wave length associated with an electron having kinetic energy
equal to 1Mev.
3. Calculate the de-Broglie wave length associated with an electron of energy 1.5eV.
4. Calculate is the de Broglie wavelength of an electron traveling with a velocity of 5% of
speed of light?
5. Find the wavelength associated with an electron having a kinetic energy of 100ev.
6. What is the wavelength of an electron accelerated through a 30.0-kV potential, as in a TV
tube?
7. What is the kinetic energy of an electron in a TEM having a 0.0100-nm wavelength?
a) Calculate the velocity of an electron that has a wavelength of 1.00 μm.
b) Through what voltage must the electron be accelerated to have this velocity?
8. The velocity of a proton emerging from a Van de Graaff accelerator is 25.0% of the
speed of light. (a) What is the proton’s wavelength? (b) What is its kinetic energy,
assuming it is nonrelativistic? (c) What was the equivalent voltage through which it was
accelerated?
9. The kinetic energy of an electron accelerated in an x-ray tube is 100 keV. Assuming it is
nonrelativistic, what is its wavelength?
10. What is the ΔE between the n=4 and n=5 states for an F2 molecule trapped within in a
one-dimension well of length 3.0 cm? At what value of n does the energy of the molecule
reach ¼kBT at 450 K, and what is the separation between this energy level and the one
immediately above it?
11. If uncertainty in the position of an electron is zero, the uncertainty in its momentum will
be-
a. <h/4𝜋
b. >h/4𝜋
c. zero
d. infinite
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12. If the uncertainty in the velocities of two particles A and B with masses of 1.0 × 10 -27 kg
and 1.0 × 10-31 kg, respectively, is the same, what will be the ratio of uncertainty in their
positions?
13. An electron in a molecule travels at a speed of 40m/s. The uncertainty in the momentum
Δp of the electron is 10−6 of its momentum. Compute the uncertainty in position Δx if the
mass of an electron is 9.1×10−31 kg using Heisenberg Uncertainty Formula.
14. The lifetime of an excited state of an atom is 3 × 10-3s. What is the minimum uncertainty
in its energy in eV?
15. If the radius of first Bohr orbit is x, then de Broglie wavelength of electron in 3 rd orbit is
nearly.
16. What is the energy (in joules) and the wavelength (in meters) of the line in the spectrum
of hydrogen that represents the movement of an electron from Bohr orbit with n = 4 to
the orbit with n = 6? In what part of the electromagnetic spectrum do we find this
radiation?
17. Evaluate the ratio of the minimum wavelength of Lyman and Balmer series
18. What is the ratio of the energies of the hydrogen atom in its first to a second excited
state?
19. A hydrogen atom initially at the ground level absorbs a photon, which excites it to the n =
4 th level. Calculate the frequency and wavelength of the photon.
20. Calculate the shortest and longest wavelengths in the hydrogen spectrum of the Lyman
series.
21. Discuss how the laser production process takes place.
22. The formula y =A cos ω (t -x/ν) describes a wave that moves in the +x direction along a
stretched string. Show that this formula is a solution of the wave equation
23. Find the probability that a particle in a box L wide can be found between x =0 and x =
L/n when it is in the nth state.
24. Find the expectation values <x>and <x2> for the first two states of a harmonic oscillator.
Refer equation 5.72 on page 191 (Beiser, modern Physics 6th edition)
25. Find the ground-state electron energy E 1 by substituting the radial wave function R that
corresponds to n =1, l =0 into Eq. (6.14), ref.(Beiser, modern Physics 6th edition)
26. Which one of the three quantum numbers describe space quantization and why?
27. Discuss how atoms interact with a magnetic field. Explain what relation exists between
line spacing and magnitude of the magnetic field. What is a Bohr magneton?

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