Molecular Spectroscopy: A Physical Chemist’s Perspective

Assignment 4: Interaction of Radiation with Matter

One or more options may be correct for the following statement. Find them.

1. Probability of transition between two states is independent of

(A) time of perturbation (B) energy gap between states

(C) energy density of light (D) monochromaticity of light

2.Time dependent perturbation used here is of

(A) first order (B) second order

(C) third order (D) zeroth order

3. Natural line width arises from

(A) space dependent part of wavefunctions (B) time dependent part of wavefunctions
(C) induced dipole moment of the molecule (D) quadrupole moment of the molecule

4. Pace time dependent wavefunction of a system is Ψ(𝑥𝑥, 𝑦𝑦, 𝑧𝑧, 𝑡𝑡)

(A) 𝜓𝜓(𝑡𝑡)𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 (B) 𝜓𝜓(𝑥𝑥, 𝑦𝑦, 𝑧𝑧, 𝑡𝑡)𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖(𝑥𝑥,𝑦𝑦 ,𝑧𝑧)
(C) 𝜓𝜓(𝑥𝑥, 𝑦𝑦, 𝑧𝑧)𝑒𝑒 −𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 (D) 𝜓𝜓(𝑡𝑡)𝑒𝑒 −𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖(𝑥𝑥 ,𝑦𝑦,𝑧𝑧)

5. A spectroscopic transition, in the language of quantum mechanics, is

(A) wavefunction collapse (B) Born-Oppenheimer breakdown

(C) configuration interaction (D) mixing of states

6. For transition between two states, we obtain the expression

𝑑𝑑𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚 𝑖𝑖
� ′ �𝜓𝜓𝑚𝑚 �𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 �𝑖𝑖(𝐸𝐸𝑚𝑚 −𝐸𝐸𝑙𝑙 )𝑡𝑡 �, where 𝐻𝐻
= − ℏ �𝜓𝜓𝑚𝑚 �𝐻𝐻 � ′ is
𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 ℏ
the perturbation correction. Here

(A) the wavefunctions depend on space, not time (B) the integral is over space, not time
(C) the wavefunctions depend on space as well as time (D) the integral is over space as well as time

7. Periodicity of electric field of light is written in exponential, rather than trigonometric form in order to

(A) get rid of imaginary quantities (B) simplify the expression

(C) account for expoential decay of field (D) make wavefunctions acceptable

Page 1 of 2
 Molecular Spectroscopy: A Physical Chemist’s Perspective

8. Phenomena that do not arise directly out of time dependent perturbation theoretical treatment of the problem of
interaction of radiation with matter are

(A) absorption (B) spontaneous emission

(C) stimulated emission (D) nonradiative processes

9. Induced emission is favored for

(A) large energy gaps (B) small energy gaps

(C) molecules that absorb strongly (D) molecules with weak absorption

Page 2 of 2