A particle of mass m moves in a one-dimensional box of length L. (Take the potential energy
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A particle of mass m moves in a one-dimensional box of length L. (Take the potential energy of the particle in the box to be zero so that its total energy is its kinetic energy p2/2m.) Its energy is quantized by the standing-wave condition n(λ/2) = L, where λ is the de Broglie wavelength of the particle and n is an integer.
(a) Show that the allowed energies are given by En = n2E1, where E1 = h2/8mL2.
(b) Evaluate En for an electron in a box of size L = 0.1 nm and make an energy-level diagram for the state from n = 1 to n = 5. Use Bohr’s second postulate f = ΔE/h to calculate the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation emitted when the electron makes a transition from
(c) n = 2 to n = 1,
(d) n = 3 to n = 2, and
(e) n = 5 to n = 1.
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