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Atomic Physics Group Assignment Guide

1. The document contains physics problems and questions related to atomic physics for different groups to solve. It includes questions about the energy, frequency, and wavelength of photons emitted during electronic transitions in hydrogen atoms, as well as calculations of wavelengths, frequencies, and speeds of electrons in different atomic orbitals. It also asks students to consider positronium, an exotic atom made of an electron and positron, and compare its properties to hydrogen.

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Atomic Physics Group Assignment Guide

1. The document contains physics problems and questions related to atomic physics for different groups to solve. It includes questions about the energy, frequency, and wavelength of photons emitted during electronic transitions in hydrogen atoms, as well as calculations of wavelengths, frequencies, and speeds of electrons in different atomic orbitals. It also asks students to consider positronium, an exotic atom made of an electron and positron, and compare its properties to hydrogen.

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Kyambogo University

Department of Physics

SPH 1102: Atomic Physics

Group Assignment 1

Group A
1. A photon is emitted as an atom makes a transition from n = 4 to n = 2 level. What is the
energy, frequency and wavelength of the emitted photon?

2. (a) For the Balmer series, what is the longest and shortest wavelength possible?
(b) Determine and state whether any of the frequency of Lyman series is in the visible region.

3. A Hydrogen atom initially in its ground state i.e., n = 1 level, absorbs a photon and ends up
in n = 4 level. What must have been the frequency of the photon? Now the electron makes
spontaneous emission and comes back to the ground state. What are the possible frequencies
of the photons emitted during this process.

Group B
4. (a) Show that in Bohrs theory, the frequency of photon emitted as the electron makes a
transition from an orbit with quantum number n to an orbit of quantum number n - 1 is given
by,

For large orbits, as we encounter in everyday situations, n is very large. Take that limit in the
above formula, ignoring additions of order 1 to the large number n.
(b) Now calculate the frequency of revolution of the electron moving in an orbit quantized
according to Bohrs formula (put Bohrs formula for electrons radius in n-th orbit) and show that it
comes out exactly equal to the frequency of photon derived in (a) above.
(c) Explain in detail what would one observe (about the radiation) if an electron were revolving
around a proton in a macroscopic sized radius and how it matches with Maxwells predictions. Do
we need to use quantum theory for motion of particles in macroscopic orbits?
(d) Find the frequency of photons emitted by an electron moving around a proton in a radius of 1
cm.
Group C
5. (a) Using Bohr’s quantization rule, derive a formula for electrons speed in the quantized
Bohrs orbits.
(b) By putting in the values of constants, explicitly derive the value of electrons speed in n =
1 orbit.
(c) What fraction of speed of light it is? Is it justified to treat electrons motion as non-
relativistic in Hydrogen atom as we have been doing? What happens to the speed in higher
levels?
6. Positronium is an atom made up of a positive electron (a positron, the anti-particle of
electron) and a usual negative electron moving around each other. For this atom, find the
Bohrs radius and frequencies of Balmer series when this atom makes transitions to n = 2
orbit from n = 3, 4, 5 orbits. Compare the frequencies with that of Hydrogen atom.

END

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