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Chapter 8: Q10P (page 344)
The mean lifetime of a certain excited atomic state is 5 ns. What is the probability of the atom staying in this excited state for t=10 ns or more?
The probability of staying atom in excited state is .
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Energy graphs: (a) Figure 8.41 shows a graph of potential energy vs. interatomic distance for a particular molecule. What is the direction of the associated force at location A? At location B? At location C? Rank the magnitude of the force at locations A,B and C. (That is, which is greatest , which is smallest, and are any of these equal to each other?) For the energy level shown on the graph, draw a line whose height is the kinetic energy when the system is at location D.
(b) Figure 8.42 shows all of the quantized energies (bound states) for one of these molecules. The energy for each state is given on the graph, in electron volts ( ). How much energy is required to break a molecule apart, if it is initially in the ground state? (Note that the final state must be an unbound state; the unbound states are not quantized.)
(c) At high enough temperatures, in a collection of these molecules there will be at all times some molecules in each of these states, and light will be emitted. What are the energies in electron volts of the emitted light?
(d) The "inertial" mass of the molecule is the mass that appears in Newton's second law, and it determines how much acceleration will result from applying a given force. Compare the inertial mass of a molecule in the ground state and the inertial mass of a molecule in an excited state above the ground state. If there is a difference, briefly explain why and calculate the difference. If there isn't a difference, briefly explain why not.)
A certain material is kept at very low temperature. It is observed that when photons with energies between 0.2 and 0.9 eV strike the material, only photons of 0.4 eV and 0.7 eV are absorbed. Next, the material is warmed up so that it starts to emit photons. When it has been warmed up enough that 0.7 eV photons begin to be emitted, what other photon energies are also observed to be emitted by the material? Explain briefly.
Suppose we have reason to suspect that a certain quantum object has only three quantum states. When we excite such an object we observe that it emits electromagnetic radiation of three different energies: (green), (orange), and (infrared). (a) Propose two possible energy-level schemes for this system. (b) Explain how to use an absorption measurement to distinguish between the two proposed schemes.
The photon energy for green light lies between the values for red and violet light. What is the approximate energy of the photons in green light? The intensity of sunlight above the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere is about 1400 W (J/s) per square meter. That is, when sunlight hits perpendicular to a square meter of area, about 1400 W of energy can be absorbed. Using the photon energy of green light, about how many photons per second strike an area of one square meter? (This is why the lumpiness of light was not noticed for so long.)
A hot bar of iron glows a dull red. Using our simple ball-spring model of a solid (Figure 8.23), answer the following questions,explaining in detail the processes involved. You will need to make some rough estimates of atomic properties based on prior work. (a) What is the approximate energy of the lowest-energy spectral emission line? Give a numerical value. (b) What is the approximate energy of the highest-energy spectral emission line? Give a numerical value. (c) What is the quantum number of the highest-energy occupied state? (d) Predict the energies of two other lines in the emission spectrum of the glowing iron bar. (Note: Our simple model is too simple-the actual spectrum is more complicated. However, this simple analysis gets at some important aspects of the phenomenon.)
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