Cairo University 3rd Year Students

Faculty of Science First Term, 2010 - 2011

Department of Chemistry MTE, Time : 45 min.
Name:…………………………………………Code Number:……………………..

Choose the MOST correct answer:

1-The increase of the frequency of the incident radiation in the photoelectric experiment:
A) increases the kinetic energy of the ejected electrons
B) increases the number of the ejected electrons
C) decreases the number of the ejected electrons
D) decreases the kinetic energy of the ejected electrons

2-An electron and a proton have the same wavelength. Which one of the following
statements is correct about them?
A) The velocity of the proton is greater than that of the electron
B) The velocity of the proton is equal to that of the electron
C) The velocity of the proton is less than that of the electron
D) The kinetic energy of the proton is greater than that of the electron

3-The quantum mechanical entities that must be single-valued, finite, continuous, and
square-integrable are:
A) Wave functions B) Wave numbers C) Expectation values D) Wavelengths

4- The momentum operator is:

 i   
A) , B) , C) , D)
x x i x i t

5-According to de Broglie, the only allowed orbits for the electrons are those that satisfy
the equation:
A) 2πr = ½nλ B) 2πr = nλ, (n = 1,2,3,…) C) 2πr = nλ, (n = 0,1,2,…) D) πr2 = nλ

6-To calculate the probability that a particle lies in a region a < x < b in one dimension
when we know the wave function ψ, we should
A) Integrate |ψ|2 from a to b C) Integrate the derivative of ψ from a to b
B) Integrate ψ from a to b D) Take the difference of |ψ|2 between a and b

7-Which of the following properties of the hydrogen atom can be predicted most accurately
from the simple Bohr model?
A) Energy differences between states
B) Angular momentum of the ground state
C) Degeneracy of states
D) Transition probabilities
8-Which of the following equations represents the energy of a single electron in a
hydrogen atom when it is in the n= 3 state?
 2.178  1018   2.178  1018   3   2.178  1018 
A)   joules B)   joules C)  18 
joules D)   joules
 3   3   2.178  10   9 

9-Which one of the following particles possesses the shortest de Broglie wavelength?
A) 1H atom travelling at 2700 ms-1
B) 4He atom travelling at 1400 ms-1
C) 7Li atom travelling at 1000 ms-1
D) 10B atom travelling at 900 ms-1

10-Which one of the following equations was proposed to explain the photoemission of
electrons from the surface of metal?
A)   h  me 
B) p  h 
C) 12 me 2  h  
D) x p  12

11- The characteristic bright, colored lines produced when an element is excited and
viewed through a spectroscope is called the
A) Atomic fingerprint
B) Atomic emission spectra
C) Atomic absorption spectra
D) Spectrophotometric transmittance

12-Which of the following is NOT a solution of the second order differential equation

13-Which of the following is an eigenfunction of the operator?

14-Which statement below is TRUE with regard to Bohr's model of the atom?
A) The model accounted for the absorption spectra of atoms but not for the
Emission spectra
B) The model could account for the emission spectrum of hydrogen and for the
Rydberg equation.
C) The model was based on the wave properties of the electron.
D) The model accounted for the emission spectra of atoms, but not for the
absorption spectra.
 15-For a silver metal the velocity of electrons emitted using 200 nm photons is
7.42x105 ms-1. The threshold frequency νo of the silver metal is:

A) 2.14x1014 Hz B) 1.21x10-15 Hz
C)1.21x1015 Hz D) 1.21x1014 Hz

16- The ionization energy of hydrogen atom is 13.6 eV. The ionization energy for
the ground state of Li++(Z=3) is:

A) 13.6 eV B) 27.2 eV C) 40.8 eV D) 122.4 eV

17- The angular momentum of an electron revolving in the second shell of the
hydrogen atom is:
A) h/2π B) h/ π C) 2h/π D) 3h/2π

18- The energy of electron in the first orbit of the hydrogen atom is equal to the
energy of the electron in the

A) 2nd orbit of He+(Z=2) B) 3rd orbit of Li++(Z=3)

C)4th orbit of Be3+ (Z=4) D) All of the above
19- The ratio of energies of electrons in the first THREE orbits in the hydrogen
atom is:

A) 13 : 1 : 12 B) 1 : 14 : 19 C) 13 : 21 : 1 D) 1: 16 : 15

𝑑2
20- If the function eikx is an eigen function of the operator . The eigen value is
𝑑𝑥2

A) ik2 B) –ik2 C) –k2 D) –ik

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h = 6.62x10-34Js , c = 2.99x108m.s-1, me = 9.1x10-31kg , mp =1.67x10-27kg

1eV= 1.6x10-19J , 1eV=8065cm-1, 1nm= 10-9m ,