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IGNOU

ROLL NO.: 177357686

NAME: BISHAL SHAW

ADDRESS: BURDWAN

COURSE CODE: PHE-11


COURSE TITLE: MODERN PHYSICS

STUDY CENTER: 2810 (MAULANA AZAD COLLEGE)

DATE:27/04/2020
Tutor Marked Assignment
MODERN PHYSICS
Course Code: PHE-11
Assignment Code: PHE-11/TMA/2020
Max. Marks: 100

Note: Attempt all questions. Symbols have their usual meanings. The marks for each
question are indicated against it.

1. a) Inside a spacecraft travelling at a speed of 0.8c with respect to the earth, the time
interval between two events on the earth is measured to be 30 hrs. What would the
time interval be if the spacecraft was travelling at a speed of 0.9c. (5)
b) Two rockets of rest length L approach each other with equal speeds of 0.4c. How
long would one rocket appear to the other? (5)

c) A rocket is launched from a spaceship travelling with a speed of 0.8c towards the
earth. If the speed of the rocket is 0.6c, what would be its speed as observed by an
observer on earth if the rocket is moving

(i) towards the earth (ii) away from the earth? (5)

d) The frequency of the light emitted by a galaxy receding from the earth is measured
to be 1.5×103 MHz. Assuming that the wavelength of the light source is 22.5 cm,
calculate how fast the galaxy is receding from the earth? (5)
e) A particle of mass M, initially at rest, decays into two particles with rest masses m1
and m2 respectively. Show that the total energy of the mass m1 is:

c 2 [ M 2  m12  m22 ]
E1  (5)
2M
2. a) The transition rate of electrons from the first excited state of the hydrogen atom to
the ground state is ~108/s. What is the minimum range of energies of the resulting
photons that are emitted? (5)

b) A photon and an electron each have an energy of 6.0  103 eV. What are their
wavelengths? Which of these would you use to probe atomic structures? (5)
c) Show that

 iap  iap
 x, e     ae  (5)
 

d) An electron has the following wave function:


 ( x)  Ae  x (1  e x ) ,
Determine
i) the normalization constant A, and
ii) the expectation value of x . (5+5)

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3. a) Obtain an expression of probability for finding the free particle at position x
confined in a box of length a. (5)

b) Using Moseley’s law, obtain the frequency of an X-ray line when L to K transition
takes place in silver atom. It is given that  = 3. (5)

c) Consider a proton as a bound oscillator with a natural frequency of 4  10 21 Hz.


Calculate the energy of its ground and first excited states. (5)

d) Obtain the most probable value and expectation value of r for the ground state of a
hydrogen atom. (5)

e) State Hund’s rules. Obtain the ground state terms of Li and Si. (5)

4. a) The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.274 years. Calculate the activity of a sample of


cobalt-60 weighing 1 g in units of Curie (Ci). (5)

b) Write an expression for semi-empirical formula for binding energy of nuclei given
by Weizsacker and discuss its each term. Using this formula, calculate the binding
energy per nucleon for 235 U. (5)

c) With the help of a schematic diagram, describe the shell model of nuclei. (5)

d) Define multiplication factor. When is a reactor said to be supercritical, critical and


subcritical? Write the importance of multiplication factor in a nuclear reactor. (5)

e) Identify whether the following particles are baryons, leptons or mesons. Write the
observable properties of these particles.

  , , , ,  (5)

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