Chapter 7: Q77E (page 284)
Calculate the electric dipole moment p and estimate the transition time for a hydrogen atom electron making an electric dipole transition from the
to the state.
Short Answer
The electric dipole moment,
The transition time
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Chapter 7: Q77E (page 284)
Calculate the electric dipole moment p and estimate the transition time for a hydrogen atom electron making an electric dipole transition from the
to the state.
The electric dipole moment,
The transition time
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Consider a cubic 3D infinite well.
(a) How many different wave functions have the same energy as the one for which ?
(b) Into how many different energy levels would this level split if the length of one side were increased by ?
(c) Make a scale diagram, similar to Figure 3, illustrating the energy splitting of the previously degenerate wave functions.
(d) Is there any degeneracy left? If so, how might it be 鈥渄estroyed鈥?
To conserve momentum, an atom emitting a photon must recoil, meaning that not all of the energy made available in the downward jump goes to the photon. (a) Find a hydrogen atom's recoil energy when it emits a photon in a n = 2 to n = 1 transition. (Note: The calculation is easiest to carry out if it is assumed that the photon carries essentially all the transition energy, which thus determines its momentum. The result justifies the assumption.) (b) What fraction of the transition energy is the recoil energy?
Roughly, how does the size of a triply ionized beryllium ion compare with hydrogen?
Classically, it was expected that an orbiting electron would emit radiation of the same frequency as its orbit frequency. We have often noted that classical behaviour is observed in the limit of large quantum numbers. Does it work in this case? (a) Show that the photon energy for the smallest possible energy jump at the 鈥渓ow-n-end鈥 of the hydrogen energies is , while that for the smallest jump at the 鈥渉igh-n-end鈥 is , where is hydrogen鈥檚 ground-state energy. (b) Use F=ma to show that the angular velocity of a classical point charge held in orbit about a fixed-point charge by the coulomb force is given by . (c) Given that , is this angular frequency equal to the minimum jump photon frequency at either end of hydrogen鈥檚 allowed energies?
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