Chapter 10: Q24P (page 412)
A Fe-57 nucleus is at rest and in its first excited state, 14.4 keV above the ground state (14.4 脳 103 eV, where 1 eV = 1.6脳10鈭19 J). The nucleus then decays to the ground state with the emission of a gamma ray (a high-energy photon). (a) Wthe recoil speed of the nucleus? (b) Calculate the slight difference in eV between the gamma-ray energy and the 14.4 keV difference between the initial and final nuclear states. (c) The 鈥淢枚ssbauer effect鈥 is the name given to a related phenomenon discovered by Rudolf M枚ssbauer in 1957, for which he received the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics. If the Fe-57 nucleus is in a solid block of iron, occasionally when the nucleus emits a gamma ray the entire solid recoils as one object. This can happen due to the fact that neighbouring atoms and nuclei are connected by the electric interatomic force. In this case, repeat the calculation of part (a) and compare with your previous result. Explain briefly
Short Answer
(a) The recoil speed of the nucleus is 80.7 m/s .
(b) The energy differencebetween gamma ray energy and energy of first excited state is 0.019 eV .
(c) The recoil speed of the nucleus is and it is seen from above results that the recoil speed of the nucleus is greater in value than the recoil speed of entire iron block.