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Name of the Paper Elements of Modern Physics
Name, of the Course B.Sc. (Hons) Physics -CBCSCore
Semester 1V

Duration: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 75

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Instructions for Candidates

1. Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper.

2. Attempt five questions in all

3. Question 1 is compulsory
4 All questions carry equal marks

5. Symbols have their usual meanings

6. Use of non-programmable calculators is allowed

Answer any five questions from the following.

1. (a) The irradiated power of a body at 333'Cis 1000 J/s. If the temperature of this body
is raised to 666°C, find the radiated power of the body.

(b) What is the physical significance of a wave function? What conditions must be satisfed
by an acceptable wave function?

(c) What voltage must be applied to an electron microscope to produce electrons of

wavelength 0.20Á.
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(d)The spectral linc of wavclength 450 nm has a width of 10* nm. Find the average time
that the atomicsystem remainsinthe corresponding energy state?

(e) How is the time dependent Schrodinger wave equationobtained from the time independent
Schrodinger equation.
() What inferences can be drawn fromi the single anddouble slit/s experiment with lectrons?
(g) Find the penetration depth of an electron having kinetic energy 10 keV when it strikes
a potential step of height 1S keV.
(h) Determine the approximate density of a nucleus treating it as a uniform sphere. (Given:
mass of a nucleon = 1.7x 10-27 kg.) (3x5=15)

2. a) Draw the Energy vs wavelength curve of a blackbody for three different temperatures
T,<T<T, Show that the Wein's law andRayleigh Jeans law of black body radiation
are the special cases of Planck's law. (5)
(b) The threshold wavelength of potassium is 558 nm. What is the work function tor
potassium? What is the stopping potential when light of 400nm is incident on potassium?
(5)
(C) Calculate the energy in electron volt of a photon of wavelength 10 ¢. What is tne
momentum of this photon? (5)

3. (a) Distinguish between phase velocity and group velocity and obtain an expressionfor
both. Derive the relation (5)
between them.
(b) Show that the Compton wavelength is independent of the nature of the scatterer andthe
original wavelength of the incident beam. (5)

(c) An electron has a deBroglie wavelength equal to that of aphoton, show that theratio
of the kinetic energy of the
electron to the energy of photon is
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(m'+h'v) -me (5)

hv

4. (a)Show mathcmatically thc valuc of wavclcnpth calculated from the Davisson Germer
Cxperiment matches the valuc of the wavclcngth calculatcd from the deBroglie's
hypothesis. (5)

(b) Estimate the minimum energy of a proton existing in[ide the nucleus using Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle. (Size of the nucleus= 1x10:!m) (5)

(c)Explain why it is plausible to define probability current density in quantum mechanics by

the following expression

J= (eh/2m) (y* grad s-y grad y

The symbols have the usual meaning (5)

5. (a) What is quantum mechanical tunneling? Obtain an expression for the tran smission
probability for abeam of particleseach with mass mand energy E (E<V,)incident on
arectangular potential barrier:
V(x) = 0 for x<0

= Vo for 0<xX<a

= 0 forx>a (10)

(b) Obtain and draw the first two normalized wave tunctions for a particle in a one
dimensional potential box. (5)

6 (a) What are nuclear forces and their characteristics? Also draw the N-Z plot and explain
the stability of the nucleus. (5)

P.T.O.
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(b) Calculate the binding energy of an alpha particle from the following data in MeV and
Joules. (Given: mass of He atom= 4.00260 amu, mass of neutron = 1.008665amu
mass of proton=1.007276amu)
(5)
(c)Calculate the total energy relcased if: 1.2 kg of 235 Uundergocs fission, taking the
disintegration energy per event to be Q = 208 MeV. (5)

7. (a) Explain why electron positronpair creation necessarily requires the presence of a nucleus.
(5)
(b)Calculate the time required for 20% of a sample of thorium to disintegrate. Assume the.
half life of thorium to be 1.4x 10!0. years. Calculate the mean life time of thorium
nucleus.
(5)
(c) Bring out the differences between atomic absorption, spontaneous emission and stimulated
emission of photons in a laser system? Discuss the main criteria that must be met to
achieve laseraction. Which method is used to achieve this criteria? (5)

Some useful constants

1. Planck constant, h = 6.626 x 10-34 J.s

2. h -1,05x 10-34 J.s

3. Boltzmann constant, K = 1.38 x 10-23 J.K

4. Mass of electron, m = 9.1 x 103 kg

e

5. Charge of electron, e = 1.6 x 10:! C

6. Speed of light in vacuum, c=3 x 10 m.s

7. Stefan-Boltzmann constant, o = 5.67 x 10-% W.m.K4
8. Rest mass energy of electron = S12
KeV
9. Velocity of electron in free space= 3x10 m/s
(1700)