CHEM F111 (General Chemistry) 1st Semester 2018-2019

Assignment-3 Date of upload: 23-10-2018

1. A beam of light with an intensity of 15 W is incident on a copper plate (φ = 7.43 x 10-19J).

Electrons with a minimum wavelength of 3.75 x 10-10 m are ejected from the surface of the
copper plate.
(a) Calculate the frequency of the incident light.
(b) Calculate the maximum number of electrons that can be ejected by a 3.0-second pulse of
the incident light.

2. Consider the Hamiltonian operator of a harmonic oscillator. Find the value of a, which

will make the wavefunction
=   an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian operator.

3. Consider a particle in a cubic box. What is the degeneracy of the levels that has energy
three times that of the ground state? What are the different states and what is the energy?

4. Consider a free particle in a one-dimensional box of length ‘a’ having infinite potential at
the boundaries. Determine the probability of finding the particle in the region 0 to a/100
when the quantum number is infinity.

5. The vibration of 35Cl35Cl molecule can be considered as simple harmonic oscillation. The
force constant is 240 Nm-1. Calculate the fundamental vibration frequency and the zero
point energy of this molecule.

6. Find the location of the radial node(s) of 4p orbital of hydrogen atom.

7. Calculate the most probable value of r for 2p of hydrogen atom.

8. The number of radial nodes in 4p orbitals are

9. Hydrogen atoms are excited to n = 4 state. In the spectrum of emitted radiation, numbers
of lines in the ultraviolet and visible regions are respectively?

A) 3 : 1 B) 1 : 3 C) 2 : 3 D) 3 : 2

10. The unit of wavefunction of the electron in Hydrogen atom is A) L3 B) L-3/2 C) L-3 D)
dimensionless

11. Assuming particle in a box model, the ratio of the zero point energy for a He atom to
that of an electron is

(a) 2.27x10-5 (b) 4.39x104 (c) 2.27x10-8 (d) 4.39x107

12. Consider particle in a one-dimensional box model. Are the following functions
acceptable based on the criteria of boundary condition satisfaction and normalization? (0<
x ≤ a)

(i) (ii)

(a) Yes, Yes (b) Yes, No (c) No, Yes (d) No, No

13. Following a particle in a 3D box model, the degeneracy of an energy level having energy
9h2/(8ma2) is

(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 0 (d) 1

14. The wavelengths corresponding to the most and least energetic spectral lines in Lyman
series are

(a) 109678 cm-1, 822583 cm-1 (b) 27419 cm-1, 15233 cm-1 (c) 12186 cm-1, 5331.6 cm-1

(d) 109678 m-1, 822583 m-1

15. The wavelength of light used to induce a transition from the ground state to the first
excited state in octatetraene, C8H10 (assume the molecule to be linear having a length of
1002 pm) is

(a) 400 nm (b) 368 nm (c) 275 nm (d) 550 nm

16. How many radial and angular nodes are there respectively in the following H orbitals
set? 2px, 2s, 3dxz

(a) (0,1), (1,0), (0,2) (b) (0,2), (1,0), (0,1) (c) (1,0), (0,1), (0,2) (d) (0,2), (0,1), (1,0)

17. Identify the orbital having two angular nodes and the following radial distribution
function

18. Identify the orbital having zero angular nodes and the following radial distribution
function
19. Calculate the angles that a spin angular momentum vector for an individual electron
can make with the z-axis.

20. Find the ground state term symbol for F and F-.

21. What J values are possible for a 6H(it is not hydrogen) term? Calculate the total number
of states associated with such a term.