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PHYSICS 73
1st semester
AY 2014 - 2015
INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the best answer and shade the corresponding circle in
your answer sheet. To change your answer, cross-out and sign your original
answer and then shade your new answer.
Scientific Constants:
e = 1.602176462 x10-19 C
1 eV = 1.602176462 x 10-19 J
me = 9.10938188 x 10-31 kg (electron mass)
mp = 1.67262158 x 10-27 kg (proton mass)
h = 6.62606876 x 10-34 Js = 4.135667273 x 10-15 eVs
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9. What is the de Broglie wavelength of a train with mass 2.00x103 kg, length
10.0m and speed 0.800c?
A. 1 x 10-45 m
B. 1.32 x 10-46 m
C. 2.20 x 10-46 m
D. 1.38 x 10-45 m
E. 8.28 x 10-46 m
10. If a proton (mass = 1.672 x 10-27 kg), an electron (mass = 9.11 x 10-31),
and a neutron (mass = 1.675 x 10-27 kg) have the same kinetic energy, which
of the following has the smallest de Broglie wavelength?
A. Proton
B. Electron
C. Neutron
D. The proton and the neutron have the same de Broglie wavelengths
E. All of them have the same de Broglie wavelengths
11. A relativistic electron is moving with a speed of 0.721c. What is its deBroglie frequency? (c is the speed of light)
A. 5.47 x 1018 Hz
B. 6.34 x 1024 Hz
C. 1.79 x 1020 Hz
D. 7.52 x 1027 Hz
E. 4.67 x 1031 Hz
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12. An atom spends an average time of 6.4 10-8 s in one of its excited states
before making a transition back to its ground state. What is the uncertainty in
energy of that excited state?
A. 6.1 1026 J
B. 8.2 10-28 J
C. 1.0 1026 J
D. 2.5 10-28 J
E. 6.4 10-8 J
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13. A particle was located within 4.93nm. What is the uncertainty in its momentum?
A. 7.31 x 10-21 kg m/s
B. 1.07 x 10-26 kg m/s
C. 5.68 x 10-24 kg m/s
D. 3.94 x 10-28 kg m/s
E. 9.45 x 10-19 kg m/s
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where f is some function of x, and a and b are real, positive constants. If this
wave function is a solution to the Schrodinger equation, what is the energy of
the particle?
A. 5b
B. 5ab/2
C. 5b/h
D. 5b/2
E. b/h
16. Which of the following statements is/are true about the wave function
that describes a particle?
I. The wave function
any location and time .
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A. x=0
B. x=0, x=25pm, x=75pm
C. x=0, x=50pm, x=100pm
D. x=25pm, x=75pm
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E. x=50pm, x=100pm
19. A free particle is described by the wave function (x,t) = e i (px - Et)/, where is the
particle most likely to be found?
A. at x=0
B. at x=1
C. at x=-1
D. The particle is equally probable everywhere
E. The particle does not exist
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20. What is the probability of finding the particle in the second excited state?
A. 1/36
B. 1/9
C. 31/36
D. 4/9
E. 11/36
21. What would be the particles average energy?
A. (1/9)E1
B. (1/36)E1
C. (95/9)E1
D. (95/36)E1
E. E1
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B.
C.
D.
E.
25. A particle confined to a one-dimensional box has ground energy level
equal to 0.4 eV. When irradiated by a light of certain frequency, it makes a
transition to an excited state. When decaying from this excited state towards
the next lower state, it emits a radiation of frequency 442.9 nm. What is the
quantum number of the state to which the particle has decayed?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 6
E. 8
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26. A particle is in the 1st excited state of a finite square well of depth U0 =
6E where E is the ground state energy of an infinite square well of the same
width. If the particle relaxes to the ground state, how much energy is
released?
A. 1.81 E
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B. 2.66 E
C. 4.47 E
D. 5.38 E
E. 3.57 E
27. Which of the following is true about a particle confined in a finite square
well?
A. There is zero probability of finding the particle outside the well.
B. The number of eigen-values is finite.
C. The ground state eigen-function has two nodes.
D. The wave functions are not normalizable.
E. The energy levels are equally spaced.
28. Consider a potential well defined by the following function,
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
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,
,
,
,
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29. An electron (me = 9.11 x 10-31 kg) with an energy of 100meV encounters a
potential barrier of height 250meV and thickness 2.00nm. If the wide barrier
assumption is true, what is the probability of tunnelling?
A. 0.00337
B. 0.00384
C. 0.00137
D. 0.00724
E. 0.0724
30. A particle moving towards the +x direction encounters a potential barrier.
The eigen-function solution to the time-independent Schrodinger equation for
a potential barrier for the case E < U0 is given below.
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38. Which of the following set/s is/are the allowed quantum numbers of an
electron in the hydrogen atom?
I.
II.
III.
IV.
A. I only
B. III only
C. I and IV only
D. II and III only
E. I, II, and III only
39. Consider a hydrogen atom. What is the degeneracy of the first excited
energy state?
A. Non-degenerate
B. Two-fold degenerate
C. Three-fold degenerate
D. Four-fold degenerate
E. Five-fold degenerate
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40. The 3rd excited energy level of the hydrogen atom is 16-fold degenerate.
Into how many energy levels does this split upon exposure to a magnetic field
if we ignore spin?
A. 0
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
E. 9
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41. What are the only possible components of the spin angular momentum of
an electron?
A. /2 and /2
B. /2
C. /2
D. 0, 1, 2, n-1
E. 3 / 2
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42. The carbon atom has six electrons. Which of the following gives the
correct orbital of the valence electron/s?
A. 2s
B. 2s2
C. 2p
D. 2s22p2
E. 2p3
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