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This document contains 12 questions as part of a physics assignment on quantum mechanics. The questions cover a range of topics including: 1) Calculating the de Broglie wavelength of electrons in an electron microscope. 2) Showing that wave packets travel at the velocity of particles and finding phase and group velocities. 3) Comparing uncertainties in velocities of electrons and protons confined in a box. 4) Stating conditions for well-behaved wave functions and identifying valid wave functions. 5) Writing the time-dependent and time-independent Schrodinger equations.

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Assignment 2 PDF

This document contains 12 questions as part of a physics assignment on quantum mechanics. The questions cover a range of topics including: 1) Calculating the de Broglie wavelength of electrons in an electron microscope. 2) Showing that wave packets travel at the velocity of particles and finding phase and group velocities. 3) Comparing uncertainties in velocities of electrons and protons confined in a box. 4) Stating conditions for well-behaved wave functions and identifying valid wave functions. 5) Writing the time-dependent and time-independent Schrodinger equations.

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IInd ASSIGNMENT

Subject: Physics-II (Quantum Mechanics)


Due date: 23/01/2017

Date: Roll No. Name

1. Find the de Broglie wavelength of the 40-keV electrons used in a certain electron microscope.

2. Show that mathematically a wave group or a wave packet associated with a moving particle travels with the
velocity of the particles. Find the phase & group velocities of an electron whose de Broglie wavelength is 1.2A?

Show that  =  (1 -

3. ) where n is the refractive index of the medium and k is propagation constant.

4. Compare the uncertainties in the velocities of an electron and a proton confined in a 1.00-nm box.

5. Write down the conditions of well behaved wave function.

6. State, giving your reasons, which of the following functions would make satisfactory wave functions for all values
of the variable x: (a)  =   (b)  =  tan  (c)  =  ( d)  =  ( e)  =  sin 
2 2

7. Write down the time dependent Schrodinger equation and time independent Schrdinger equation.

8. Obtain Schrodinger steady state equation from y=A Cos 2 (t - x/vp) with the help of de Broglie relationship
= h/mv by letting y = and finding d2/dx2.
9. Prove that the wave function in Schrodinger equation is linear by showing that it is satisfied for the wave
equation (x,t)=a1 (x,t)+b2 (x,t) where a and b are constants and 1 (x,t) and 2 (x,t) describe two waves
each satisfying the Schrodinger Equation.

10. The wave function of a particle moving in the x-dimension is

 
, 0<< 
 
=
0, 
a) Normalize the wave function
b) Calculate <x>, <x2> and x.
c) Calculate <px>,< > and px.
d) Determine expectation value of total energy of the particle. (Hint: <E>)

11. The normalized wave function of a particle is  


=  exp( ), where A, a and b are constants.
Calculate the uncertainty in its momentum.

12. For a particle in a one dimensional rigid box/infinite potential well of width 0.1 nm, calculate (a)the separation
between the two lowest energy levels; (b) the frequency and wavelength of the photon corresponding to a
transition between these two levels.

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