Simple Nature - Light and Matter

the data are only inaccurate due to rounding off when writing down the table. Which are consistent with the production of a sing ...

11 All helium on earth is from the decay of naturally occurring heavy radioactive elements such as uranium. Each alpha particle ...

Problem 15. Problem 16. 15 (a) Rank-order the photons according to their wavelengths, frequencies, and energies. If two are equa ...

19 In a television, suppose the electrons are accelerated from rest through a voltage difference of 10^4 V. What is their final ...

Problem 25. (b) Sketch a graph showing what this wavefunction looks like. (c) Let’s interpretb. If you changedb, how would the w ...

29 Before the quantum theory, experimentalists noted that in many cases, they would find three lines in the spectrum of the same ...

33 An electron is initially at rest. A photon collides with the electron and rebounds from the collision at 180 degrees, i.e., g ...

39 Americium-241 is an artificial isotope used in smoke de- tectors. It undergoes alpha decay, with a half-life of 432 years. As ...

Problem 43. 43 On pp. 929-931 of subsection 13.4.5, we used simple algebra to derive an approximate expression for the energies ...

45 Suppose that an electron, in one dimension, is confined to a certain region of space so that its wavefunction is given by Ψ = ...

50 Let Ψ =e^2 x+y. Compute∇^2 Ψ. √ Key to symbols: √easy typical challenging difficult very difficult An answer check is availab ...

Exercises Exercise 13A: Quantum Versus Classical Randomness Imagine the classical version of the particle in a one-dimensional ...

Exercise 13B: Choice of quantum numbers We could choose to identify a human by their first and last names, or by their social se ...

Exercise 13C: Rotation around different axes This exercise refers to the example at the beginning of section 13.4.3 on p. 923, w ...

Exercise 13D: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox A nucleus having zero angular momentum undergoes symmetric fission into two fr ...

956 Chapter 13 Quantum Physics ...

Chapter 14 Additional Topics in Quan- tum Physics 14.1 The Stern-Gerlach experiment In 1921, Otto Stern proposed an experiment a ...

a/Bottom: A schematic di- agram of the Stern-Gerlach experiment. The z direction is out of the page. The entire apparatus is abo ...

vertical line to a somewhat wider oval. The atoms are dispersed from left to right along a certain scale of measurement accordin ...

b/1. The molecule N 2. 2. The nucleus^178 Hf. 14.2 Rotation and vibration 14.2.1 Types of excitations Figure a shows the visible ...