Home work Assignment 2

1. Describe the condition for an object to be a perfect blackbody, and explain why we call the
radiation emitted from hot objects blackbody radiation.

2. Based on the Rayleigh-Jeans Law of Black body radiation, explain why UV catastrophe occurs for
shorter wavelengths.

Look in the graph below and then say whether the statements true or false:

A. With increase in temperature the emission spectra shifts towards the infra-red region.
B. With decrease in temperature the emission spectra shifts towards the infra-red region.
C. Higher the temperature of a body, emissivity shifts towards UV region.
D. Radiation emitted is continuum and does not take discrete values.

3. You have a black piece of charcoal and a polished metal sphere of identical size. Both are at the
same temperature T. Recall radiative power is given by P = T
4
; where is emissivity ( 0 for a
perfect reflector and 1 for a perfect absorber/emitter) and the wavelength where the maximum
radiation is emitted is given by
max
= constant/T. Which of the following is true?
A. The peak of the black body radiation from the charcoal is at a longer wavelength than the
peak of the black body radiation from the polished metal sphere.
B. The peak of the black body radiation from the charcoal is at a shorter wavelength than the
peak of the black body radiation from the polished metal sphere.
C. The peak of the black body radiation from the charcoal is at same wavelength as the peak
of the black body radiation from the polished metal sphere as both are in the same
temperature.
D. The polished metal sphere is not black and hence does not emit black body radiation.
E. The polished metal sphere emits more black body radiation than the charcoal.

4. Use Wein's Law to find the peak radiation for a star whose surface temperature is 2,900 K. In
what form of energy would this peak fall?
A. 100,000 nm in the microwaves
B. 1,000 nm in the infra-red
C. 100 nm in the ultraviolet
D. 100 nm in the x-rays

5. A newly formed white dwarf has a peak in its spectrum at 145 nm, in the ultraviolet. Find its
surface temperature.
A. 200 K
B. 2000 K
C. 20,000 K
D. 200,000 K

6. If the surface of Venus is, on average, about three times hotter than the surface of Mars, how
does the infrared output of the two planets compare?

A. Venus gives off three times as much energy, but at about the same wavelengths.

B. Mars give off three times less energy, but at three times shorter wavelength.
C. Mars give off about the same total energy , but at three times the longer wavelength.
D. Venus's infrared radation peaks at 1/3 that of Mars in wavelength, and far exceeds that of
Mars in intensiry.

7. Calculate the magnitude of the energy of the photon (or quantum) associated with light of
wavelength 6000 A (A = 10
-8
cm).


8. Find the wavelength in Angstorm of the line in Balmer Series that is associated with drop of the
electron from the third orbit. The value of Rydberg Constant is 109, 676 cm
-1
.


9. Predict the number of subshells in the fourth shell, that is, for n = 4. (b) Give the label
for each of these subshells (c) How many orbitals are in each of these subshells?


10. An electron is moving with a K.E. of 4.55 x 10
-25
J. What will be the de-Broglie
wavelength?


11. To which of the species Bohrs Theory does not apply?
A. H B. Na C. Li
+2
D. He
+


12. Explain why Liquid Helium does not freeze at absolute zero under atmospheric pressure.


13. Explain why larger sized quantum dots show shift towards infra-red in their emission
spectrum under same absorption wavelength?


14. What anamoly of Bohrs Model was corrected in Schrodinger equation?



15. Calculate the wavelength of light which have frequency of 5.09 x 10
-14
sec
-1
, where c =
3.0 x 10
8
m/s