NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA-8

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION, 2022

SESSION: 2021-22, SPRING SEMESTER

Subject code: CY-2302 Subject Name: Physical chemistry: structure Dept. Code: CY
Full Marks: 30 No of pages: 01
Duration of Examination: 02.00 hours
Answer all questions, Figures in the right hand margin indicate marks
Q.No. All parts of a question should be answered at one place Marks
1. (a) Briefly describe (1) Releigh-Jeans Law and (2) Einstein’s model for heat capacity of 5
metals.
(b) Consider a particle whose wavefunction is given by   Ae
ikx
, calculate the
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momentum of this particle and show that the momentum value is consistent with the
de Broglie’s relation.

2. (a) Justify the statement that “an electron in a class room size container its translational 2
energy is not quantized whereas an electron in a conjugated polyene has quantized
translational energy”
(b) Consider a free particles travelling in a circular path of radius r, write the appropriate 5
Schrödinger wave equation for this particle and solve the equation to find the
wavefunction of the particle. Normalize the wavefunction and show that the
rotational energy of this particle is quantized.

3. (a) Given that the ground state wavefunction for hydrogen atom is 4
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r
 1 2 
    e a0
1s
 3 
 a 0 
(i) Calculate the most probable radius of an electron described by this
wavefunction, (ii) What is the maximum value of the probability density and where
it occurs. At what distance does the probability of finding the electron located at a
small volume element fall to 40% of its maximum value.
(b) What is the magnitude of orbital angular momentum and its possible z-axis 3
projections for an electron that occupy a 4d orbital. How many numbers of radial and
angular nodes 4d orbital contain? Make a sketch the radial wavefunction and radial
distribution function for this orbital.

4. (a) For two electrons occupying an orbital, deduce the form of the acceptable total 3
wavefunction by using Pauli’s principle
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(b) Using the concept of spin-orbit splitting, explain the presence of two lines in the
emission spectrum of sodium. If the energy difference between the lines is 17.2cm-1,
calculate the spin-orbit coupling constant (A, in wave number) for the sodium atom.

(Useful data: h = 6.626 x 10-34 Js, c = 2. 998 x 108 ms-1, mass of an electron = 9.11 x 10-31
kg, rest mass of proton = 1.66 x 10-27 kg, 0 = 8.854 x 10-12 C2J-1
m-1, e = 1.6 x 10-19 C, a0 = 52.9 pm, 1 eV = 1.602 x 10-19 J)

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