Quantum Physics Fall 2009

Exam
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III

(Last, First)
This is an exam. It is to be your work and you are not to discuss this material with anyone other than Dr. Mueller. You may use general reference material such as the online supplemental material listed in your text, but you are to.show yoru work and, inc,lude.any, details required so that any of your classmates or anyone knowledgeable in the topic can follow it. Your work, using this page as the cover sheet, is due in the class homework box by 5:00PM on Tuesday Dec 1. Each part counts equally. Use this page as the cover sheet for your work.

1. An electron is in the ground state of tritium, for which the nuclius consists of a proton and two neutrons. A nuclear reaction instantaneously changes themrclius toHd+hat is, two protons and one neutron. Calculate the probability that the electron remains in the ground state of He3.

2.

Examp\e 9-1 demonstrates how to find the matrix U, which has the properfythat so that U L" U1: h M, . Ui M, A) Calculate M, by applying U and U'to L*. B) Calculate M, by applying U and Ui to Lr.

LJ:Lh

C)

Show by explicit calculation that the M's satis$ the ang:nlar rnornenfurn osrnrnutation relations.

3. considerthespin^'

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What is the probability that a measurement of (3S. + 4S,y5

yields the value +hl2

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in an infinite potential well with width L and one edge at x:0. What is the energy shift due to the introduction of an additional potential, which corresponds to tilting the "floor" of the well, V(x) : Vo(x,/L)" for the nth state?
mass m,

5. Calculate the energy shift in the ground

V:

state of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, l. xa is added to the simple harmonic oscillator potential.

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