[4] ii) Solve the equation to obtain expression for the wave function.

What is meant by normalised wave function? Normalise the wave function in the present case. 6

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iii) Show that there is a sequence of discrete energy values corresponding to all + ve integral values. 2 Time : Three hours

P HYSICS - IIB
Full Marks : 100 Answer any five questions. 1. Define magnetic flux and mention its unit in the S.I. system. Find an expression for the force experienced by a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field. State Biot-Savart law for the magnetic field due to a current element and use it to obtain the magnetic field due to an infinite, thin and straight wire carrying a current I. A charge of 4104 C moves at 15 revolutions per second in a circle of radius 10 cm. What is the magnetic flux density at the center of the circle? 2. 8+8+4

iv) Calculate the expectation values of position x and momentum p. Do they depend on the quantum state? 5

v) Draw the probability density functions for the states n = 1, 2 and 3. 3

vi) How will the probability density functions be modified if the potential well has walls of finite height? 2

What is meant by self-inductance? What is its unit in SI system? Find an expression for self-inductance of a long solenoid. Derive an expression for the growth and decay of current in a circuit containing resistance, inductance and a cell of e.m.f. What do you understand by the time constant? 10+10

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Monochromatic light falls on thin film. Find the necessary condition for interference fringes when viewed in the reflected light. Show that the diameters of bright rings in a Newtons ring experiment (in reflected light) are proportional to square root of odd natural numbers. [ Turn over

[2] In a Newtons ring experiment, the diameters of the 4th and 12th dark rings are 04 cm and 07 cm, respectively. Find the diameter of the 20th dark ring. 4. 8+8+4 6.

[3] a) Describe the nature of X-ray spectra. Distinguish between continuous and characteristic spectra. How can the lowest wavelength limit in the continuous X-ray spectra be explained? 6

Distinguish between Fresnel and Fraunhofer classes of diffraction. How does the intensity expression of Fraunhofer diffraction due to a plane transmission grating differ from that due to a single slit diffraction? Find the necessary condition for obtaining the principal maxima of different orders and their intensities in case of grating. A plane transmission grating having 6000 lines per cm is used to obtain diffraction from sodium light in the second order. Find the angular separation between the two sodium lines having wave lengths 5890 and 5896 , respectively. 8+8+4 2 7.

b) X-ray of wavelength 2 is scattered from a carbon block. The scattered radiation is viewed at 90o to the incident beam. Find the wavelength of the modified X-ray line in the scattered beam. (h = 6621034 JS, m = 911031 Kg) 4 Deduce the necessary formula. 10

a) Describe the Davisson-Germer experiment and explain how h the results obtained confirm de Broglies relation = for p electrons moving with momentum p. ( is the de-Broglie wavelength and h the Planck constant) 10

5.

State Bohrs postulates for the hydrogen atom.

t Derive an expression for the energy of an electron in the n h

An electron is accelerated in a p.d of 45,000 V. Ignoring relativistic considerations, calculate the de Broglie 4 2

Bohr orbit.

An electron makes a jump from n=2 to n=1 orbit in the hydrogen atom. What is the amount of energy released in eV? 4

wavelength of the electron. b) State Heissenbergs Uncertainty Principle.

Show that the velocity of the electron in the first Bohr orbit in the hydrogen atom is
1 C , where C is the velocity of light. 137

Use it to estimate the energy of an atomic electron if the size of the atom is of the order of 1 . 8. 4

A particle is confined in a one dimensional square well potential with rigid walls ( v ( x ) = 0 for 0 < x < L , v ( x ) otherwise) i) Write down the time independent Schrdinger equation of the particle. 2 [ Turn over

Deduce the necessary formula.

Find an expression for the allowed radii of the Bohr orbits (e=48031010 e.s.u, m=9111028 gm, h=6621027 erg sec, 1 eV = 16011012 ergs) 5