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This document contains 11 physics assignment problems related to topics in quantum mechanics and particle physics, including: 1) Deriving the number density of standing electromagnetic waves in a blackbody cavity. 2) Expressing the Planck radiation formula in terms of wavelength and plotting it for different temperatures. 3) Designing a photoelectric effect experiment and analyzing observations of electron emission from sodium under varying light intensities and wavelengths. 4) Calculating the minimum wavelength of light needed to eject electrons with a given maximum kinetic energy from tungsten. 5) Determining the electrical potential acquired by a silver ball when exposed to UV light in a vacuum chamber.

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Phy Assignment NIT

This document contains 11 physics assignment problems related to topics in quantum mechanics and particle physics, including: 1) Deriving the number density of standing electromagnetic waves in a blackbody cavity. 2) Expressing the Planck radiation formula in terms of wavelength and plotting it for different temperatures. 3) Designing a photoelectric effect experiment and analyzing observations of electron emission from sodium under varying light intensities and wavelengths. 4) Calculating the minimum wavelength of light needed to eject electrons with a given maximum kinetic energy from tungsten. 5) Determining the electrical potential acquired by a silver ball when exposed to UV light in a vacuum chamber.

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PH -1001 (Physics - I)

Assignment -III

1. Show that the number density of standing em waves in the frequency interval ν and dν
inside a blackbody is G(ν)dν = 8πνdν
c3
.

2. Express the Planck radiation formula in terms of wavelength and plot it as energy density
VS wavelength for temperatures T1 = 800K and T2 = 1000K. How does the plot look
different from that of energy density VS frequency.

3. Suppose you are performing the photoelectric effect experiment using sodium as the target
metal. You find that with a 300nm light with light intensity, you have about 1000 electrons
being ejected per second. You are making observations of both the number of electrons
being ejected per second and the kinetic energy of these ejected electrons.

(a) What do you observe if you decrease the intensity lower and lower as compared to
the original setup?
(b) What do you observe if you change the light radiation over a broad range (from far
IR to far UV)?
(c) What can you say about the nature of light from your observation?

4. The maximum wavelength for photoelectric emission in tungsten is 230nm. What wave-
length of light must be used in order for electrons with a maximum energy of 1.5 eV to
be ejected.

5. A silver ball is suspended by a string in vacuum chamber and UV light of wavelength


200nm is directed at it. What electrical potential will the ball acquire as a result ?

6. Electrons are accelerated in the television tubes through potential difference of about
10kV. Find the highest frequency of the em waves emitted when these electrons strike
the screen of the tube. What kind of waves are these?

7. The smallest angle of Bragg scattering in Potassium chloride is 28.4◦ for 0.30nm X-rays.
Find the distance between atomic planes in Potassium chloride.

8. A photon whose energy equals the rest energy of the electron undergoes a Compton
collision with an electron. If the electron moves off an angle of 40◦ with the original
photon direction, what is the energy of the scattered photon ?

9. A positron with a kinetic energy of 2.000MeV collides with an electron at rest and the two
particles are annihilated. Two photons are produced; one moves in the same direction as
the incoming positron and the other moves in the opposite direction. find the energies of
the photons.

10. (a) Verify that the minimum energy a photon must have to create an electron-positron
pair in the presence of a stationary nucleus of mass M is 2mc2 (1 + m/M ), where m is
the electron rest mass. (b) Find the minimum energy needed for pair production in the
presence of proton.

11. Find the approximate gravitational redshift in 500nm light emitted by a white dwarf star
whose mass is that of the sun but whose radius is that of the earth, 6.4 × 106 m.

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