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FIFTH SEMESTER B.Sc. (CBCSS) DEGREE EXAMINATIONS,

NOVEMBER 2020
(Regular / Supplementary / Improvement)
Physics
PH5 B07: Quantum Mechanics

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

I. Answer all questions: (10 x 1 = 10 Marks)

1. At low photon energies, ____________ is the chief mechanism for energy loss of photon.
2. A wave effect with no analog in the behaviour of newtonian particles is ____________
3. In the hydrogen spectrum, ____________ series belong to the visible region.
4. As per the Bohr atom model, the radius of the nth orbit of electron is directly proportional to
____________ of n.
+∞
5. A wave function obeying the condition −∞
|𝜓|2 dx = 1 is said to be ____________
6. Working of STM is based on ____________
7. Spacing of the energy levels is constant for the harmonic oscillator (True/ False).
8. What is the unit of Bohr Magneton?
9. In the hydrogen atom, the electron’s probability density is symmetrical about z-axis
irrespective of the quantum state it is in (True/ False).
10. The quantity (-e/2m) is called ____________

II. Give short answers to all of the following questions: (7 x 2 = 14 Marks)

11. Write a short note on the process ‘pair production’.
12. Briefly explain about ‘the waves of probability’.
13. What are the criteria for a wave function to be considered as a well behaved wave
function?
14. What is meant by the expectation value of position?
15. Explain the phenomenon ‘tunneling effect’.
16. What is meant by Zeeman effect?
17. What are the conditions for allowed and forbidden transitions?

III. PART A: Answer any five questions: (5 x 4 = 20 Marks)

18. Explain the importance of Davisson-Germer experiment.
19. Explain how Albert Einstein succeeded in explaining the photoelectric effect.
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20. Briefly explain the origin of line spectra. Also write the expressions for the wave number
of various spectral series of hydrogen atom.
21. Briefly explain the effect super position of wave functions.
22. Deduce the steady state form of Schrodinger equation.
23. Briefly explain the Stern-Gerlach experiment.
24. Briefly discuss the probability of finding the electron in a spherical shell between r and
‘r + dr’ from the nucleus of the hydrogen atom.

PART B: Answer any four questions: (4 x 4 = 16 Marks)

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25. The sun’s mass is 2 x 10 kg and its radius is 7 x 10 m. Calculate the approximate
gravitational red shift in light of wavelength 400 nm emitted by the sun.
26. A hydrogen atom is 5.3 x 10 -11 m in radius. Estimate the minimum energy an electron can
have in this atom by uncertainty principle.
27. Show that the Bohr atom model is in conformity with the correspondence principle.
28. Find the longest wavelength present in the Balmer series of hydrogen atom.
29. A particle limited to the x-axis has the wave function ψ = ax between x = 0 and x = 1;
ψ = 0 elsewhere.
(a) Find the probability that the particle can be found between x = 0.45 and x = 0.55
(b) Find the expectation value of position, < x >, of the particle.
30. Electron with energy of 1.0 eV is incident on a barrier 10.0 eV high and 0.50 nm wide.
(a) Find the transmission probability.
(b) How the transmission probability will be affected if the barrier is doubled in width?
31. Verify that the average value of 1/r for a 1s electron in the hydrogen atom is 1/a 0.

IV. Write essays on any two of the following: (2 x 10 = 20 Marks)

32. Explain Compton effect and discuss in detail how does it support the quantum theory of
radiation.
33. Discuss group velocity and phase velocity in the case of matter waves. Prove that the
de Broglie wave group associated with a moving body travels with the same velocity as
the body.
34. Discuss the particle in a box problem. Express the energy eigen functions in terms of
momentum eigen functions. Also find the momentum eigen values.
35. Discuss the hydrogen atom problem. Also specify the role of various quantum numbers.