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Integrated Concepts
Estimate the density of a nucleus by calculating the density of a proton, taking it to be a sphere 1.2 fm in diameter. Compare your result with the value estimated in this chapter.
Integrated Concepts
The electric and magnetic forces on an electron in the CRT in [link] are supposed to be in opposite directions. Verify this by determining the direction of each force for the situation shown. Explain how you obtain the directions (that is, identify the rules used).
The electric force on the electron is up (toward the positively charged plate). The magnetic force is down (by the RHR).
(a) What is the distance between the slits of a diffraction grating that produces a first-order maximum for the first Balmer line at an angle of ?
(b) At what angle will the fourth line of the Balmer series appear in first order?
(c) At what angle will the second-order maximum be for the first line?
Integrated Concepts
A galaxy moving away from the earth has a speed of . What wavelength do we observe for an to transition for hydrogen in that galaxy?
401 nm
Integrated Concepts
Calculate the velocity of a star moving relative to the earth if you observe a wavelength of 91.0 nm for ionized hydrogen capturing an electron directly into the lowest orbital (that is, a to , or a Lyman series transition).
Integrated Concepts
In a Millikan oil-drop experiment using a setup like that in [link] , a 500-V potential difference is applied to plates separated by 2.50 cm. (a) What is the mass of an oil drop having two extra electrons that is suspended motionless by the field between the plates? (b) What is the diameter of the drop, assuming it is a sphere with the density of olive oil?
(a)
(b)
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What double-slit separation would produce a first-order maximum at for 25.0-keV x rays? The small answer indicates that the wave character of x rays is best determined by having them interact with very small objects such as atoms and molecules.
Integrated Concepts
In a laboratory experiment designed to duplicate Thomson’s determination of , a beam of electrons having a velocity of enters a magnetic field. The beam moves perpendicular to the field in a path having a 6.80-cm radius of curvature. Determine from these observations, and compare the result with the known value.
, which agrees with the known value of to within the precision of the measurement
Integrated Concepts
Find the value of , the orbital angular momentum quantum number, for the moon around the earth. The extremely large value obtained implies that it is impossible to tell the difference between adjacent quantized orbits for macroscopic objects.
Integrated Concepts
Particles called muons exist in cosmic rays and can be created in particle accelerators. Muons are very similar to electrons, having the same charge and spin, but they have a mass 207 times greater. When muons are captured by an atom, they orbit just like an electron but with a smaller radius, since the mass in is 207 .
(a) Calculate the radius of the orbit for a muon in a uranium ion ( ).
(b) Compare this with the 7.5-fm radius of a uranium nucleus. Note that since the muon orbits inside the electron, it falls into a hydrogen-like orbit. Since your answer is less than the radius of the nucleus, you can see that the photons emitted as the muon falls into its lowest orbit can give information about the nucleus.
(a) 2.78 fm
(b) 0.37 of the nuclear radius.
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