Molecular Spectroscopy: A Physical Chemist’s Perspective

Assignment 2: Rigid rotor

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

1. Periodic boundary condition, used for the dependent part of Schrodinger equation for a rigid rotor, builds upon
the requirement of wavefunction to be

(A) Continuous (B) Normalised

(C) Single valued (D) Orthogonal to each other

2. Spacing between successive microwave spectral lines

(A) is same (B) increases with increase in energy

(C) decreases with increase in energy (D) goes through a maximum

3. The lowest allowed energy is zero for

(A) Hydrogen atom (B) Rigid Rotor

(C) Particle in 1D box (D) Particle in 3D box

4. Microwave spectrum of a molecule, in absence of any external electric or magnetic field, can be used to
determine

(A) bond length (B) bond strength

(C) dipole moment (D) molecular mass

5.The spacing between the rotational line of HF is 40 cm-1, The corresponding spacing between the rotational line in
DF is approximately

(A) 20 cm-1 (B) 30cm-1

(C) 70 cm-1 (D) 7.9 cm-1

6. Spacing between successive energy levels of a rigid rotor

(A) is same (B) increases with increase in energy

(C) decreases with increase in energy (D) goes through a maximum

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7. Out of the following molecules, microwave activity is observed for

(A) H2 (B) HCl

(C) SF6 (D) CH3Cl

8. The 1st rotational absorption of 12CO is found to occur at 3.8424 cm-1, while that of xCO is at 3.6734 cm-1. x =

(A) 14 (B) 13

(C) 12 (D) 15

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