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The document outlines Assignment 1 for PHY114, detailing problems for discussion and tutorial sessions. It includes a mix of theoretical questions related to quantum mechanics, historical figures in physics, and practical calculations involving natural radioactivity and thermodynamics. Students are encouraged to research and solve the problems using available resources.

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Assignment 1 PHY114

The document outlines Assignment 1 for PHY114, detailing problems for discussion and tutorial sessions. It includes a mix of theoretical questions related to quantum mechanics, historical figures in physics, and practical calculations involving natural radioactivity and thermodynamics. Students are encouraged to research and solve the problems using available resources.

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Assignment 1

PHY114 (2023‐24‐I)
Week‐1 (to be discussed on 10‐08‐2023)

Problems to be discussed and solved by Students – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (we encourage you to use google to get the
relevant information for these)

Problems to be solved in the tutorial –6, 7, 8

1. What is common between Deepika(Padukone)‐Ranveer(Singh) wedding and Copenhagen


interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

2. How observant are you?


I. What are the directions of athletic field and health centre from your Hall of Residence?
II. How many rooms are there in your hostel?
III. How many tables are there in the canteen of your hostel?
IV. Roughly, how far (in km) is the SBI from your hostel?
V. We all know that the moon is illuminated by the Sun. How does the picture of the Moon’s
surface sent by Chandrayan‐3, shown below, tell you that this is so?

3. Learn about the lives of Newton, Leibniz, Thomas Young, William Rowan Hamilton, Max Planck,
Wilhem Wien, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Prafulla Chandra Ray, J. C. Bose, Meghnad Saha, S.N. Bose,
G. N. Ramachandran, C.V. Raman, E. Schrödinger, W. Heisenberg, P.A.M Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli.

4. Natural radioactivity of human body is about 100 Bq (becquerel)/kg. Calculate the number of
disintegrations per minute taking place in your body. Which elements are responsible for this and
what kind of radioactive decay is it?
5. Given below are a few words describing some quantum phenomena, with each responsible for
something useful in nature or for a device developed by human beings:

nuclear fission; nuclear fusion; quantum tunnelling; quantum Hall effect; electron spin; proton spin;
emission spectrum of Caesium atom; stimulated emission; Pauli’s exclusion principle.

Relate each of this word to what they are connected with?

6. After the concept of quanta of energy and radiation was introduced, it was a conceptual advance to
think that Planck’s constant ℎ could have a connection also with the atomic size or its spectrum. This
was proposed by Arthur Eric Haas in 1910, preceding Bohr model by three years. We will now do that
calculation.
I. Assume a hydrogen atom to be made up of a positive charge spread over a sphere of radius 𝑎
and an electron moving on its surface. Taking the magnitude 𝐸 of the potential energy of
the electron to be ℎ𝜈, where 𝜈 is its frequency of revolution, obtain 𝑎 in terms of ℎ, 𝑚
(electronic mass) and 𝑒 (electronic charge).
II. Take the frequency of revolution to be 𝜈 of Balmer’s formula 𝜈 𝜈 1 4/𝑛 for
hydrogen spectrum. By what factor would the Rydberg constant 𝑅 obtained using Haas’s

theory differ from its correct theoretical value 𝑅 ?

7. Thermodynamics equation 𝑇𝑑𝑆 𝑑𝑈 𝑝𝑑𝑉, where all symbols have their standard meaning, gives

𝑝 . Apply dimensional analysis to get the pressure of radiation in a black‐body cavity in

terms of its energy density 𝑢 𝑇 by using Stefan’s law stating that 𝑢 𝑇 ∝ 𝑇 . Dimensions of 𝑆 are
given by dividing energy by temperature.

8. Using dimensional analysis, estimate the energy of the first nuclear fission explosion (Trinity) on July
16, 1945 , from its pictures below taken after the detonation. Take density of the air to be 1.2 kg/m3 .

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