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Tutorial 1 Birth of Quantum Mechanics

This document outlines 7 problems for a quantum mechanics tutorial covering key concepts in the birth of quantum mechanics including: 1. Deriving Wien's displacement law relating the wavelength of maximum blackbody radiation to temperature. 2. Using the photoelectric effect to estimate Planck's constant, work function, cutoff frequency, and cutoff wavelength for lead. 3. Calculating the wavelength of maximum thermal radiation for a room temperature object and the temperature required to shift this into the red spectrum.

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Tutorial 1 Birth of Quantum Mechanics

This document outlines 7 problems for a quantum mechanics tutorial covering key concepts in the birth of quantum mechanics including: 1. Deriving Wien's displacement law relating the wavelength of maximum blackbody radiation to temperature. 2. Using the photoelectric effect to estimate Planck's constant, work function, cutoff frequency, and cutoff wavelength for lead. 3. Calculating the wavelength of maximum thermal radiation for a room temperature object and the temperature required to shift this into the red spectrum.

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QM Tutorial 1: Birth of Quantum Mechanics (AY2022-23, Semester II)

1. (a) Find out the wavelength 𝜆𝑚𝑎𝑥 at which the energy density from a blackbody is
maximum as per the Planck’s distribution of blackbody radiation at temperature T. (b)
Derive Wien’s displacement law 𝜆𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑇 ≈ 𝑏 and find out the constant 𝑏.

2. When two ultraviolet beams of wavelengths 𝜆1 = 80 nm and 𝜆2 = 110 nm fall on a lead


surface, they produce photoelectrons with maximum energies of 11.390 eV and 7.154 eV,
respectively. (a) Estimate Planck’s constant. (b) Calculate the work function, the cutoff
frequency, and the cutoff wavelength of lead.

3. (a) At what wavelength does a room-temperature (𝑇 = 30 oC) object emit the maximum
thermal radiation? (b) To what temperature must we heat it until its maximum thermal
radiation is in the red region of the spectrum?
4. X-rays of wavelength 10.0 pm are scattered from a target. (a) Find the wavelength of the
x-rays scattered through 45 o. (b) Find the maximum wavelength present in the scattered x-
rays. (c) Find the maximum kinetic energy of the recoil electrons.
5. Prove that a free electron cannot fully absorb a photon. [Hint: Start from Compton’s
formalism of energy and momentum conservations]
6. An electron has a kinetic energy of 10 eV. (a) Calculate the velocity of the electron. (b)
Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of this electron.

7. Given two plane waves 𝜓1 = 𝐴1 𝑒𝑥𝑝(𝑖(𝑘𝑥 + 𝜔𝑡)) and 𝜓2 = 𝐴2 𝑒𝑥𝑝(𝑖(𝑘𝑥 + 𝜔𝑡 + ))


undergoing interference where 𝐴1 , 𝐴2 are real-valued amplitudes, 𝑘 is the wave number, 𝜔
is the angular frequency, and 𝛿 is some real number, what is the resultant intensity?

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