Compilation of semester exam level questions in Quantum Mechanics-I on following topics.
FAILURE OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS - blackbody radiation, atomic spectroscopy, photoelectric effect, Compton effect, de Broglie’s hypothesis, Davisson-Germer experiment, double slit experiment.
WAVE STATE - Born ...
1. [4 rnarks] Consider a particle of mass rn, moving in one dimension, unde.r the inftucricr.
of a potential V( x ) given by
k
V (:x: ) == -- ~
I :x: 1.
wh e re k is a constant..
( i) Estimate the ground state energy of the particle using the uncertainty principle.
(ii) How does the ground state energy change if we let h -t 0.
2. [6 rnarks] C onsider a particle of mass rn subj(~ct to a onc-dirrwn sional potential V( :1,: )
given by
( oc, :r; < --d
V(x) ==
{ -o:5(x) 1 :r; > -d
where a and d arc positive constants and J(x) is the Dirac delta-funct ion.
(i) Find an equation for the bound state energy E of the particle.
(ii) How docs the energy E change if vvc let d ·---, x.
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