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Latm = 1.0 x 10° newtous/meter? = 1,0 x 10° pascals (Pa) 1A = 1 x 10° meter Ltesla = 10* gauss ‘Moments of inertia about center of mass ae Rod ime Dise 5 MR Soles Ban?PHYSICS TEST Time—170 minutes 100 Questions Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or ‘completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then fill in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1. Which of the following best illustrates the 2. ‘The coefficient of static friction between a small acceleration of a pendulum bob at points coin and the surface of a turntable is 0.30. The a through e? turntable rotates at 33.3 revolutions per minute. ‘What is the maximum distance from the center “) of the turntable at which the coin will not slide? (A) 0,024 m (B) 0.048 m é a © 0.121 m a a (B) 0.242 m é () 0.484 m 8) 3, A satellite of mass m orbits a planet of mass. Mf ‘in a circular orbit of radius R, The time required for one revolution is e /| (A) independent of M a ® @) proportional to mt (C) linear in R a (D) proportional to RY? (©) proportional to R? : 4, Ina nonrelativistic, one-dimensional collision, dye ‘a particle of mass 2m collides with a particle of ‘mass m at rest, If the particles stick together after ©) the collision, what fraction of the initial kinetic ‘energy is lost in the collision? a) 0 a 6 € 5 © OF 1 pt e a 2 ees @% GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.5. A three-dimensional harmonic oscillator is in thermal equilibrium with a temperature reservoir at temperature 7. The average total energy of the oscillator is ar ge ®) er 3 © 5a @) 3k © or 6. Anideal monatomic gas expands quasi-statically to twice its Volume. Ifthe process is isothermal, the work done by the gas is. W, . Ifthe process is adiabatic, the work done by the gas is W,. Which of the following is true? ww=W, Gos W 18, The energy required to remove both electrons from the helium atom in its ground state is 79.0 eV. How much energy is required to ionize helium (i.e., to remove one electron) ? (A) 246eV B) 39.5eV (© S18eV (D) 544ev ©) 54eV 19. The primary source of the Sun’s energy is @ series Of thermonuclear reactions in which the energy produced is c? times the mass difference between, (A) twvo hydrogen atoms and one hetiurn atom (B) four hydrogen atoms and one helium ator (C) six hydrogen atoms and two helium atoms (D) three helium atoms and one carbon atom. (E) two hydrogen atoms plus two helium atoms and one carbon atoma 20, Inthe production of X rays, the tes “bremsstrahlung” refers to which of the following? (A) The cut-off wavelength, nig of the X-ray tube (B) The discrete X-ray lines emitted when an electron in an outer orbit fills a vacancy in ‘an inner orbit of the atoms in the target metal of the X-ray tube (C) The discrete X-ray lines absorbed when an electron in an inner orbit fills vacancy in an onter orbit of the atoms in the terget metal of the X-ray tube (D) The smooth, continuous X-ray spectra produced by high-energy blackbody radiation from the X-ray tube (E) The smooth, continuous X-ray spectra produced by rapidly decelerating electrons in the target metal of the X-ray tube 21, In the hydrogen spectrum, the ratio of the wavelengths for Lyman-ar radiation ( n= 1) to Balmer-a radiation ( =3 t0 n (A) 5148 (B) 5/27 © 13 @)3 (©) 2715 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.22. An astronomer observes a very small moon 23. A particle is constrained to move in a circle with @ orbiting a planet and mexsures the moon's 10-meter radius. At one instant, the particle's minimam and maximum distances from the speed is 10 meters per second and is increasing at planet’s center and the moon's maximum orbital arate of 10 meters per second squared. The angle speed, Which of the following CANNOT be between the particle's velocity and acceleration calculated from these measurements? vectors is (A) Mass of the moon ao (B) Mass of the planet 8) 30° (© Minimo speed of the moon © 45 (D) Period of the orbit ee ) Semimajor axis of the orbit (0) 60: © 9 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.Vv v 24, A stone is thrown at an angle of 45° above the horizontal x-axis in the +-direction. If air resistance is ignored, which of the velocity versus time graphs shown above best represents Vy versus t and v, versus f respectively? 2, Vet Uy Vit @ ot Vv Bon 1 © wu mm o v ® Ww v [unas capping ruse oT lay par of his go opal GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. “425. 26. Soven pennies are arranged in a hexagonal, planar pattern so as fo touch each neighbor, as shown in the figure above. Each penny is @ uniform disk of mass m and radius 7. What is the moment of inertia of the system of seven pennies about an axis that passes through the center of the central penny and is normal to the plane of the pennies? (A) (1/2) mr? (B) (13/2) mr? © 29/2) mr (©) (49/2) mr? (E) (85/2) mr? TA. ‘A thin uniform sod of mass M and length L is positioned vertically above an anchored frictionless pivot point, as shown above, and then allowed to fall to the ground. With what speed does the free end of the rod strike the ground? wy feet (B) yak ©) Br ©) igh ) 12eE 27. The eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator are always (A) teal (B) imaginary (©) degenerate (D) linear ©) positive |w:) = 511) ~ 312) +213) Jwa) =[1) ~ 52) + x13) 28, The states |1), |2}, and |3} are orthonormal, For what value of x are the states | y,) and | v2) given above orthogonal? @ 10 B) 5 © 0 ©) 5 ® -10 1 Ly Ver ht ae isa linear combination of three orthonormal eigenstates ofthe operator O conesponding toeigenvalues ~1, 1, and 2, What isthe expectation value of O for this state? 29, The state y wz @) & o1 © 4 ) (3 + 2 = 1) We We GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.30. Which of the following funetions could represent the radial wave fimetion for an electron in an atom? (7 is the distance of the electron from the nucleus; A and b are constants.) Lae’ IL. A sin(br) UL Alr (A) Lonly (B) Honly (© Land I only (D) Land II only © 1.0, and it 31. Positronium is an ator formed by an electron and a positron (antielectron). It is similar to the hydrogen atom, with the positron replacing the proton, If positronium atom makes a transition from the state with n =3 to a state with n the energy of the photon emitted in this transi is closest to (A) 6.0ev B) 68eV (© 122ev (D) 13.6eV ©) 420V 32. Ifthe total energy of a particle of mass mm is equal to twice is rest energy, then the magnitude of the particle's relativistic momentum is (A) mel2 B) mehi2 © me D) me ©) Ime rz copying arrose al oft page ep 33, [Fa charged pion that decays in 10-* second in its own rest frame is to wavel 30 meters in the laboratory before decaying, the pion’s speed must bbe most nearly (A) 0.43 x 108 m/s (B) 2.84 108 mis {C) 2.90 108 m/s {D) 2.98% 108 mis {B) 3.00% 108 ns 34, Inn intial reference frame S, two events occur on the x-axis separated in time by At and in space by Ax, In another inertial reference frame , moving in the x-direction relative to S, the two events could occur atthe same time under which, if any, of the following conditions? (A) Forany values of Ax and Ar {B) Only if |Ax/Arle () Only if |Ax/Ar|= {B) Under no condition 35, Ifthe absolute temperature of a blackbody is increased by a factor of 3, the energy radiated per second per unit area does which of the following? (A) Decreases by a factor of 81 (B) Decteases by a factor of 9, {C) Increases by a factor of 9. {D) Increases by a factor of 27, (E) Increases by a factor of 81 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.36, Consider the quasi-static adiabatic expansion ‘of an ideal gas from an initial state 7 to a final state f- Which of the following statements is NOT true? (A) No heat flows into or out of the gas. (B) The entropy of state 7 equals the entropy of state (C) The change of internal energy of the gas is ~ J Pav. (D) The mechanical work done by the gas is J Pav. ©) The temperature of the gas remains constant, P (kPa) vom) 37. A constant amount of an ideal gas undergoes the cyclic process ABCA in the PV diagram shown above. The path BC is isothermal. ‘The work done by the gas during one complete cycle, beginning and ending at A, is most nearly (A) 600 KT (B) 300K) @ 0 (D) -300 ki © -00Kd L0©) rH R 38. An AC circuit consists ofthe elements shown above, with R= 10,000 ohms, Z = 25 millihenries, and C an adjustable capacitance, The AC voltage generator supplies a signal with an amplitude of 40 volts and angular frequency of 1,000 radians per second. For what value of C’is the amplitude Of the current maximized? (A) 4nF (B) 400F © 4uF ©) 40ur &) 400uF 39. Which two of the following cireuits are high-pass filters? L 1 In Out Oat " TH, Nv. I Out In Ont (A) Tand IL (B) Land 111 (© Land IV (D} Wand 01 @) Wand V GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.29 v ue Bion Pee eee 40. In the circuit shown above, the switch $ is closed at r= 0. Which of the following best represents the voltage across the inductor, as seen on an oscilloscope? (A) Voltage ®) Voluge tov} lov Co Oo Smsec 1 OW msec 7 (©) Voltage ©) Voltage 10VE- lov —— 0 200see (B) Voltage 10Vv 0 w0see t GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.41, Maxwell's equations can be written in the form shown below. If magnetic charge exists and if itis, conserved, which of these equations will have to be changed? LV-B= ple, I. V-B=0 mm. vxn =~ ie ea I. VxB = Hod + Mots Sp (A) Lonly (B) only (©) Monly (D) Land IV (E) Hand it (Unauthorised copying of euze 3 Shy par of hs page eee 34 42. Thee wire loops and an observer are positioned as shown in the figure above. From the observer's point of view, a current J flows counterclockwise in the middle loop, which is moving towards the observer with a velocity v. Loops A and B ate stationary. This same observer would notice that (A) clockwise currents are induced in loops Aaud B (B) counterclockwise currents are induced in loops A and B (©) aclockwise current is induced in loop A, but ‘ counterclockwise current is induced in loop B () a counterclockwise cusrent is induced in loop A, but a clockwise current is induced in loop B ©) a counterclockwise current is induced in loop A, bat no current is induced in loop B GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.43. The components of the orbital angular momentam operator L = (Le, Ly, L,) satisly the following commutation relations. Ly, Ly] = inky, Uy, = ih, Uy, Ld = ind, What is the value of the commutator [L,Ly, Ly]? (A) 2UAE,Ly (B) 1h (22 + 13) © -ih(2 +B) @) ia(, - B) ® -in(- 6) 44, The energy eigenstates for a particle of mass m in a box of length L, have wave functions 9,(x) = f27L sin(nmx/ L) and energies Eq = mah? /AmL?, where n = 12,3, Attime r= the particle isin a state described as follows. ¥(= 0) = eta, 42g) +345] Which of the following is a possible result of a ‘measurement of energy for the state? (A) 28, B) 5B (© 7B (D) 9E, (©) 148, Unasaried spying of eas ey pate of is page Noga 36 445, Let| m ) represent the normalized 1 energy eigenstate of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, Hm) = hal ir 3)I n).If| y is a normalized ensemble state that can be expanded as a linear combination 3 1 2 = eli) - Pel 2) +3) ot Iw = agltd~ Fig]? + FigL3) ofthe cigenstates, what is the expectation value of the ‘energy operator in this ensemble state? 102 &) Pro ©) hw © Fre © hha © agra 46, A free particle with initial kinetic energy E and. de Broglie wavelength 2 enters a region in which it has potential energy V. What is the pacticle’s new de Broglie wavelength? (A) AC + EIV) ®) AU-WIE) © ad-ayy ) 201 + VEY? ©) 20-wey GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,47. A sealed and thermally insulated container of total volume V is divided into two equal volumes by ‘an impermeable wall. The left half of the con- tainer is initially occupied by n moles of an ideal {gas at temperature 7. Which of the following fives the change in entropy ofthe system when the wall is suddenly removed and the gas expands to fill the entire volume? (A) 2nR In2 (B) AR Ind (©) ne ino (D) -nen2 (B) -2nR In2 48. A gaseous mixture of O, (molecular mass 32 u) and No (molecular mass 28 u) is maintained at Yrn(Na), Vms(O2) of the root-mean-square speeds of the molecules? constant temperature, What is the ratio we Oe of oy © w($) 49, In a Maxwell-Boltzmann system with two states of energies © and 2¢, respectively, and a degeneracy of 2 for each state, the partition funetion is (aot (B) 2eeT (© eter (D) eT 4 eer B) 2ertM 4 erelkry Unaatiorsed soping sry ar ofthe page 38 50, At 20°C, a pipe open at both ends resonates at a frequency of 440 hertz. At what frequency does the same pipe resonate on a particularly cold day when the speed of sound is 3 pereent lower than it would be at 20°C ? (A) 414 Hz (B) 427 Hz (© 433 Hz (D) 40 Hz (B) 453 Hz 51. Unpolarized light of intensity [y is incident on a series of three polarizing filters. The axis of the second filter is oriented at 45° to that of the first filter, while the axis of the third filter is oriented at 90° to that of the first filter. What is the intensity, of the light transmitted through the third filter? (A) 0 (B) 1/8 © bys D) fy2 ® hyv2 52. The conventional unit cell of a body-centered cubic Bravais lattice is shown in the figure above. The conventional cell has volume a? . What is the volume of the primitive unit cell? (A) a8 @) a4 (C) @/2 od (B) 20° GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.53. Which of the following best represents the temperature dependence ofthe resistivity of an undoped semiconductor? we TF o} 1 2 3° 18) BP 54, The figure above shows a plot ofthe time- dependent force F(t) acting on a particle in motion along the a-axis. What isthe total impulse delivered to the particle? ao (B) I kg-m/s © pt (© 2kgemis (D) 3 kgsm/s (©) 4 kgm @) e ; oe O wy Gk | Before Collision After Collision ; 55. A particle of mass mis moving along the x-axis with speed v when it collides with a particle of mass. 2m initially at rest. After the collision, the first particle has come to rest, and the second particle has split into two equal-mass pizces that move at equal angles 6 >0 with the x-axis, as shown in the figure above. Which of the following statements correctly deseribes the speeds of the two pieces? ®e (A) Bach piece moves with speed v. (B) One of the pieces moves with speed v, the other moves with speed less than (©) Each piece moves with speed v/2 (D) One of the pieves moves with speed v/2, the ‘other moves with speed greater than v/2. (B) Each piece moves with speed greater than 0/2 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,56. A balloon is to be filled with helium and used to suspend a mass of 300 kilograms in air. Ifthe ‘mass of the balloon is neglected, which of the following gives the approximate volume of helium required? (The density of air is 1.29 kilograms per cubic meter and the density of helium is 0.18 kilogram per cubie meter.) (A) 50m? @B) 95m (© 135m (D) 270m) () 540 mé ___} | 57. A stream of water of density p, cross-sectional area A, and speed v strikes @ wall that is perpendicular to the direction of the stream, as shown in the figure above. The water then flows sideways across the wall, The force exerted by the stream on the wall is (A) pA (B) pvd/2 (© pgha (D) v'Alp (E) Al amy pet oft pge aga 2 58. A proton moves in the +z-direction after being accelerated from rest through a potential difference V. The proton then passes through a region with a uniform electric field in the ++xdirection and a uniform magnetic field B in the +ydirection, but the proton’s trajectory is not affected. Ifthe experiment were repeated using a potential difference of 2V, the proton would then be (A) deflected in the x-direction (B) deflected in the —x-direction (©) deflected in the +y-direction (D) deflected in the -)-direction (B) undeflected 59. For an inductor and capacitor connected in series, the equation describing the motion of charge is where L is the inductance, C is the capacitance, and Q is the chaege, An analogous equation can be written for a simple harmonic oscillator with ns, mass m, and spring constant &. ‘Which of the following correctly lists the mechanical analogs of L, C, and Q? Lo ¢o@ Am ok x Bm lk x Ok xr om @) Uk tim x © x uk tm GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,60. An infinite, uniformly charged sheet with surface- charge density o cuts through a spherical Gaussian surface of radius R at a distance x from its center, as shown in the figure above. The electric lux @ through the Gaussian surface is 2, (ay RO fA) @ ®) AR-xo © MR= xo © ae mR = Po py MR = 0 ©) @ a(R - Po py SR Fe (BE) [Bnscioriaed conying ous oT] ley ar of his ge ag 44 Incident Wave 61. An electromagnetic plane wave, propagating in vacuum, has an electric field given by E = Ecos (kx — at) and is normally incident ‘ona perfect conductor at x =0, as shown in the figure above, Immediately to the left of the conductor, the total electric field £ and the total magnetic field B are given by which of the following? E B (A) 0 0 (B) 2Fcosm = 0 oo (2B) /c) cosar (D) 2E, cosear (2B /c) cost (BE) 2Fcosm (2 /c) sino 62, A nonrelativistic pacticle with a charge twice that of an electron moves through a uniform magnetic fleld. The field has a strength of /4 tesla and is perpendicular to the velocity of the particle, What is the particle's massif it has a cyclotron frequency of 1,600 hertz? (A) 25x 10° kg B) 12% 10 kg © 33x10 kg ©) 5.0% 107 kg (©) 75x 107! kg GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,Intensity 0 2 4 6 Wavelength (1m) 63. The distribution of relative intensity 1(2) of blackbody radiation from a solid object versus the wavelength 2. is shown in the figure above. Ifthe Wien displacement law constant is 2.9% 10° mK, what is the approximate temperature of the object? @ 10K (B) 50K © 250K () 1,500K ©) 6.250K 64, Electromagnetic radiation provides a means to probe aspects ofthe physical universe. Which of the following statements regarding radiation spectta is NOT correct? (A) Lines in the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum reveat primarily the nuclear structure of the sample. (B) The wavelengths identified in an absorption spectrum of an element ate among those in its emission spectrum, (C) Absorption spectra can be used to determine which elements are present in distant stars (D) Spectral analysis can be used to identify the composition of galactic dust, ©) Band spectra are dine to molecules. [Gnsiorzed copying or eae of] any par of hs page spe 46 ee sion() hr yp 65. Einstein's formula for the molar heat capacity C of solids is given above. At high temperatures, C approaches which of the following? wo (© 3kNyhy ©) 34, © Nby 66. A sample of radioactive nuclei of a certain element can decay only by y emission and f-emission. If the half-life for emission is 24 minutes and that for B-emission is 36 minutes, the half-life for the sample is {A) 30 minutes (B) 24 minutes (C) 20.8 minutes (D) 144 minutes (E) 6 minutes 67. The ™8U nucleus has a binding energy of about 7.6 MeV per nucleon. If the nuclens were to fission into two equal fragments, each would have a kinetic energy of just over 100 MeV. From this, it can be concluded that (A) 290 cannot fission spontaneously (B) *5U has a large neutron excess (C) nuclei near 4 = 120 have masses greater than half that of 20) (D) nuclei ncar A = 120 must be bound by about 6.7 MeVinucleon @) nuclei near 4 = 120 must be bound by about 8.5 MeVinucleon GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.68. When Be transforms into Li, it does so by (A) emitting an alpha particle only @) emitting an electron only © enitting a neutron only (D) emitting a positron only (B) electron capture by the nucleus with emission ‘of a neutrino 69. Blue light of wavelength 480 nanometers is ‘most strongly reflected off a thin film of oil on fa glass slide when viewed near normal incidence, Assuming that the index of refraction of the oil js 1.2 and that of the glass is 1.6, what is the minimum thickness of the oil film (other than ze10)? (A) 150 nm (B) 200 nm (C) 300 nm (D) 400 nm ©) 480m 70, Light from a laser falls on a pai of very narrow slits separated by 0.5 micrometer, and bright fringes separated by 1.0 millimeter are observed on adistant screen. Ifthe frequency of the laser light is doubled, what will be the separation of the bright fringes? (A) 0.25 mm (8) 05 mm © 10mm (D) 2.0mm (E) 2.5mm 71, The ultraviolet Lyman alpha line of hydrogen with wavelength 121,5 nanometers is emitted by an astronomical object. An observer on Earth measures the wavelength of the light received from the object to be 607.5 nanometers, The ‘observer can conclude that the object is moving with a radial velocity of (A) 24> 108 mis toward Earth (B) 2.8.x 108 mis toward Earth (©) 2.4% 108 mis away from Barth (©) 28> 108 ms away from Barth @) 12 108 mis away from Barth Tonsuhorzag copying o oon er to tis page toga 48 UUM UL 72. Two identical blocks are connected by a spring. The combination is suspended, at res, from & string attached to the ceiling, as shown in the figure above. The string breaks suddenly. Immediately after the string breaks, what is the downward acceleration af the upper block? (A) 0 ®) @i2 Og ) 2g ©) 28 + 4 B 173. For the system consisting of the two blocks shown in the figure above, the minimum horizontal force F is applied so that block B does not fall under the influence of gravity. The masses of A end B are 16.0 kilograms and 4.00 kilograms, respectively. The horizontal surface is frictionless and the coefficient of friction between the two blocks is 0.50. The magnitude of F is most nearly (A) SON (B) 100N © 200N @) 400N {B) 1,600 N GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,74, The Lagrangian for a mechanical system is L= aq? +g", Where q isa generalized coordinate and @ and b are constants. The equation of motion for this system is (A) ¢ (B) ¢ Og ©) G= = ® a=2 a) f U2 82 oVfa,) a! -v3/2 1/2 off a, | ay 0 0 1jla,) 75. The matrix shown above transforms the com- Ponents of a vector in one coordinate frame $ to the components of the same vector in a second coordinate frame S*. This matrix represents a rotation of the reference frame 5 by (A) 30° clockwise about the x-axis, (B) 30° counterclockwise about the z-axis, (©) 45° clockwise about the z-axis, (D) 60° clockwise about the y-axis (B) 60° counterclockwise about the z-axis 76, The mean kinetic energy of the conduction electrons in metals is ordinarily much higher than £7 because A) electrons have many more degrees of frecdom than atoms do (B) the electrons and the lattice are notin thermal equilibrium (©) the electrons form a degenerate Fermi gas (D) electrons in metals are highly relativistic (©) electrons interact strongly with phonons 78. . An ensemble of systems is in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir for which KT = 0,025 eV. ‘State A has an energy that is 0.1 eV above that of state B, If itis assumed the systems obey Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics and that the degeneracies of the two states are the same, then the ratio of the number of systems in state A to ‘the number in state B is (a e* (B) ets ©. ©) 25 Het ‘The muon decays with a characteristic lifotime of about 10° second into an electron, a muon neutrino, and sn electron antineutrino, The muon is forbidden from decaying into an electron and Justa single nentrino by the law of conservation of (A) charge @) mass (C) energy and momentum (D) baryon number ) lepton number . A particle leaving a cyclotron has a total relativistic energy of 10 GeV and a relativistic ‘momentum of 8 GeV/c, What is the rest mass of this particle? (A) 0.25 Gevic? (B) 1.20GeVvie? (©) 2.00 GeV/c? (D) 6.00 GeWic? ©) 16.0 Gewe? GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,80, A tube of water is traveling at 1/2 c relative to the lab frame when a beam of light traveling in the same direction as the tube enters it, What is the speed of light in the water relative to the lab frame? (The index of refraction of watcr is 4/3.) @) IR (B) 23¢ © 56 (D) IO/ite ®e 81. Which of the following is the orbital angular ‘momentum eigenfunction ¥i"(@, 9) in a state for which the operators L? and L, have eigenvalues 6h and —A, respectively? A BG) ®) H@,9) © FeW2O.9) + 5G] D) YO, 9) ® 470.9) 82. Let | a7) represent the state of an electron with spin up and | ) the state of an electron with, spin down, Valid spin eigenfunetions for a wiplet state @S) of a two-electron atom include which of the following? Ll@)la) Ue len| Ars -lay1Bd) F(a | Ada +] @)21 Bs) (A) Loaly (B) Tonly (© Monly @) Fand DL ) Wand [Unauariad copying oy ouwe oT any ar ofthe pe ege 52 83, The state of a spin-}_ particle can be represented uusing the eigenstates |t) and | 4) of the S, operator. 8.17) S[4y = Aly) gal) 0 1 an cigenstate of S, with 1) Given the Pauli matrix -( or Which of the following, cigenvalue -10 7 |) BB+ © wil) -1) ® Ut) +414) m 1 ® Flt) #14) 84, An energy-level diagram of the m= 1 and n=2 levels of atomic hydrogen (including the effects of spin-orbit coupling and relativity) is shown in the figure above, ‘Three transitions are labeled 4, B, and C. Which of the transitions will be possible electric- 3 nee? B) 3 @ fame 1 yg? (c) ge D) MR Preise (&) Z MR [Wanshorizad coprng ar cues a] bry par ofthe page egal 62 92. Two smail equal masses m are connected by an {deal massless spring that has equilibrium length @ and force constant &, as shown in the figure above. The system is free to move without friction in the plane of the page. If p, and p, represent the magnitudes of the momenta of the two ‘masses, a Hamiltonian for this system is 2 ph “4 Pane ea) @) () oO GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,93. The solution to the Schrédinger equation for the ground state of hydrogen is Y= vag) where ag is the Bohr radius and r is the distance from the origin. Which of the following is the ‘most probable value for 7? (A) 0 (B) ag/2 © aw ©) 2% ® © reg 94, The raising and lowering operators for the quantum harmonic oscillator satisfy at |n) = nF T|n +1), aln) = Salm - 1 for energy eigenstates |x) with energy F,, Which of the following gives the first-order shift inthe m = 2 energy level due to the perturbation AH = Via + at, where V is a constant? (ay 0 (B) V © 2V (D) 2y2V @ sv Snutranaed copying oan a amr pa ofthis sage aie 1 P| 95. An infinite slab of insulating material with dielectric constant K and permittivity © = Key is placed in a uniform electric field of magnitude Eq. The field is perpendicular to the surface of the material, as shown in the figure above. ‘The magnitude of the electric field inside the material is 96. A uniformly charged sphere of total charge Q expands and contracts between radii Ry and Ry ata frequency The total power radiated by the sphere is (A) proportional 10 @ (B) proportional to f? (C) proportional to f+ (D) proportional to (R,/R,) © ww GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.Vacuum 97. A beam of light has a small wavelength spread 6A about a central wavelength 2, The beam travels in vacuum until it enters a glass plate at an angle @ relative to the normal to the plate, as shown in the figure above. The index of refraction of the glass is given by (2), The angular spread 60 of the refracted beam is given by (C) 66" = (D) 56" = tan 0 dn) ©) 80" =| A | Gnauhorized wopying or owe of] Soy part of tis sage age 66 98, Suppose that a system in quantum state i has energy £;. In thermal equilibrium, the expression represents which of the following? (A) The average energy of the system (B) The partition function (© Unity (D) The probability to find the system with energy E; (B) The entropy of the system 99, A photon strikes an electron of mass m that is initially at rest, creating an electron-positron par. ‘The photon is destroyed and the positron and twa electrons move off at equsl speeds along the initial direction of the photon. The energy of the photon was (a) me (B) 2mc? () 3c (Dy Amc? (E) Se? GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.Fixed Mirror Laser oongin Movoble Minor Red Filter Green Laser BS ‘Mirror Ho Photodetectar Green BS = Beam Splitter Filter Photodetector 100. A Michelson interferometer is configured as a wavemeter, as shown in the figure above, so that a rato of fringe counts may be used to compare the Wavelengths of two lasers with high precision, When the mirror inthe right ‘arm of the interferometer is translated through a distance dl, 100,000 interference fringes pass across the Geteotor for green light and 85,865 fringes puss across the detector for red (2 = 632.82 nanometers) light. The wavelength of the green laser light is (A) 500.33 nm. B) 543.37 am (©) 590.19 om (D) 736.99 nm (B) 858.65 nm Ityou finish before time is called, you may check your work on this test.Scoring Your Subject Test Physics Test scores typically range from 450 to 950. ‘The range for different editions of a given test may vaty because different editions are not of precisely the same difficulty. The differences in ranges among different editions of a given test, however, usually are senall. This should be taken into account, especially when comparing two very high scores. The score conversion table on page 73 shows the score range for this edition of the test only. The worksheet on page 72 lists the correct answers enter the total number correct and the rotal nurnber incorrect. Divide the total incorrect by 4 and subtract the resulting number from the total correct. This isthe adjustment made for guessing, Then round the result to the nearest whole number. This will give you your raw total score. Use the total score conversion table to find the scaled total scare that corresponds to your aww total score. Example: Suppose you chose the correct answers t0 44 questions and incorrect answers to 30. Dividing 30 by 4 yields 7.5. Subtracting 7.5 from 44 equals 36.5, which is rounded to 37. The raw score of 37 corre- to the questions, Columns are provided for you to mark sponds to a scaled score of 650. whether you chose the correct (C) answer ot an incorrect (1) answer to each question. Draw a line across any question you omitted, because it is not counted in the scoring. 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