Wavelength Definition and 1000 Threads

Homework Statement A photon of wavelength 300nm is emitted from an atom when an electron makes a transition from an energy state of -4 eV to a state of -8 eV. IF the initial state had been at enerygy of -6 eV, the wavelength of the photon emitted in a transition to -8eV is..?? Homework...

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known date Homework Equations $$\delta v=\frac{c}{2nL} \:[1]$$ $$N=\frac{\Delta v}{\delta v}=\frac{2nL\Delta v}{c} \:[2]$$ The Attempt at a Solution I am having trouble with question 5, but have come to realize I think my cavity length is...

The Compton wavelength of a particle is given by $$\lambda=\frac{h}{mc}.$$ One can construct an expression for the energy density ##\rho## of a particle of mass ##m## given by $$\rho = \frac{mc^2}{\lambda^3}=\frac{m^4 c^5}{h^3}.$$ What is the physical significance of the mass scale ##m## in the...

Hi all, the question is as follows: 1. Homework Statement From the energy level diagram for OH in the study guide, it can be seen that the first rotationally excited level of OH (2∏3=2 J =5\2) lies 120 K above the groundstate. What is the wavelength of radiation associated with a transition...

Homework Statement Calculate the expected peak wavelength and spectral bandwidth (in units of wavelength) of the emission for both a GaAs and silicon LED at liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K) and room temperature (300 K). Which of these cases would you expect to result in the best emitter and...

Homework Statement An electron moving to the left at 0.8c collides with an incoming photon moving to the right. After the collision, the electron is moving to the right at 0.6c and an outgoing photon moves to the left. What was the wavelength of the incoming photon? Homework Equations p=γmv...

Homework Statement the question asks at which point is the string moving upward at the instant shown? Homework Equations No equations needed The Attempt at a Solution I am not sure how I should approach this type of questions. A) will move downward B) downward then upward C) upward then...

Homework Statement Stated in the attached file. Homework Equations Wavelength = 2 times length divided by harmonic I don’t know if it’s the relevant equation The Attempt at a Solution I used the equation I wrote. So, if the left side is 10cm longer, I guess it might be 2(10).

Homework Statement A long, heavy rope hangs straight down from a high balcony on an apartment building. The lower end of the rope hangs about 1.0 m above the ground. If you grab onto the lower end and waggle it back and forth with constant frequency f, a wave travels up the rope. What would...

Homework Statement An organ pipe 1.2m long and open at both ends produces a note with the fundamental frequency. If the speed of sound in air is 345 m/s, what is the fundamental frequency? Homework Equations Wave equation (f = v/lambda) The Attempt at a Solution My textbook solves the problem...

I solved it, but then saw another solution online and am wondering if is is correct (since it is much faster than mine) and if my reasoning of it is correct 1. Homework Statement Two loudspeakers emit sound waves along the x-axis. A listener in front of both speakers hears a maximum sound...

Homework Statement In an investigation into single-slit diffraction, a laser is used to produce an interference pattern on a screen. With the following information determine the wavelength of the light in 3 different ways. · The angle to the third dark fringe is 2.6˚. · The...

Hi all, I have two questions about light in Special Relativity. (I'm going to pad these questions out with a few statements about my understanding of length contraction and time dilation, so you can see how I currently think about it and clear up any misconceptions if I've got the basic idea...

Can somebody please help me I am looking for the diameter required of a carbon nanotube to emit a wavelength of 800 nm. If I could just find a graph of nanotube diameter versus emitting wavelength.

Title says it all. Also, if the frequency of electromagnetic radiation is limited, why? My guess is the wavelength is limited to the Planck length, and when I plug those numbers into the calculator, I get 1.855 * 10^43 Hz. The maximum (Edit: observed) frequency of a gamma ray is 3 * 10^20 Hz...

Homework Statement Find the retarding potential required to stop electron of de-broglie wavelength 0.5 nm Homework Equations 1)de-broglie wavelenght=h/momentum 2)eV=KE of electron 3)KE=p^2/2m The Attempt at a Solution Using the above three relations is giving me an incorrect answer for V...

I am studying hailstones. I have set up an experiment to pass colored light through hail, one color at a time for the colors of the visible spectrum, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet (ROYGBIV). I have measured the dominate wavelength for each color with a photo spectrometer...

Hi, stuck on this question, hoping someone could help 1. Homework Statement Two identical photons of wavelength 4.22x16^-7m are created when a certain amount of matter M, is converted into energy, calculate the Mass (M) The Attempt at a Solution E= hf which is hc/wavelength E= 4.71x10^-19J...

How wavelength of photon is measured experimentally?

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution de Broglie wavelength λ of a particle = h /P a) since mass of proton is more than electron and speed is same , momentum of proton is more . De Broglie wavelength of proton will be less . b) wavelengths will be same . c) Using...

I am interested to know what is the impact of various length scales of impedance changes on wave propagation. From undergraduate physics (a few years ago for me) I roughly remember how to derive reflection and transmission coefficients for a wave traveling from one medium to another with a...

Homework Statement The Lyman-α line (n = 2 → n = 1) has a wavelength of 121.6nm in the absence of a magnetic field. When B = 1 Tesla, into how many wavelengths will this split and what are their wavelengths? (You may need the values μ B = 9.274 × 10 −24 J/T, h̄ = 1.054 × 10 −34 Js and c =...

The position wavefunction makes a spatial probability amplitude wave right? And it is the combination of different frequencies My question is that if these frequencies are the spatial frequencies in the debrogile relations

If everything is made of atoms, and if atoms have so much empty space inside them - and if the building blocks of atoms are made up of wave-like particles that aren't solid (strictly speaking) - then why do cars crash and billiard balls bounce off each other, as opposed to passing through each...

If I had a white light bulb and covered it with the right colour of film (red-ish) will the resulting wavelength be about 700nm?

Homework Statement a) explain why a pattern of bright and dark fringes is visible on a screen when a light is shone through a double slit. b) Use this data to determine the wavelength of light being used to create the interference pattern. Do this three different ways. -The angle to the eighth...

Homework Statement Suppose a double-slit experiment is immersed in water (with an index of refraction of 1.33). When in the water, what happens to the interference fringes? Homework Equations λ = λ0 / n y = (λmL) / d d = distance between slits L = distance to viewing screen n = index of...

we know the five spectral series of Lyman, Balmer, Paschen, bracket, and Pfund their wavelength and also the part of EM spectrum they fall in, my question is why do we neglect the 6th series in the spectrum? and in what part of EM spectrum the 6th series exist and what could be its wavelength...

Homework Statement A uniform rope of length 12cm and mass 6kg hangs vertically from a rigid support.A block of mass 2kg is attached to the free end of the rope.A transverse pulse of wavelength 0.06m is produced at the lower end of the rope.What is the wavelength of the rope ,when it reaches...

Assume a source of EM radiation at wave length λ hits a barrier with a small circular hole of diameter d << λ. What fraction of the radiated power (watts) that hits the hole passes through it? Does it depend on the thickness of the barrier? I understand that after passing through the hole, the...

Homework Statement I'm a bit stuck on how to approach this problem. A miniature spectrometer used for chemical analysis has a diffraction grating with 800 slits/mm set 25.0 mm in front of the detector "screen." The detector can barely distinguish two bright lines that are 30 μm apart in the...

Hi everyone, I have a few questions about the composition of light: First, what is it? Is white light the result of all color wavelengths present in an area? Second, if so, then why is there no interference in waves of light (or is there)? Third, if photons all travel at the same speed, then...

For a proton to capture an electron to form a neutron and a neutrino (assumed massless), the electron must have some minimum energy. For such an electron,how can the de-Broglie wavelength be found out?

Hello, I'm wonder if is possible in Wolfram Mathematica to fill some object or just set a color of object by a entering a wavelength, i.e. I write 450 and the line will be blue etc. Please advise me, I didn't find anything useful. Thank you all.

Hi everyone, Im a little bit confused about deBroglies procedure on introducing his famous Matterwave formula. People already knew that the wavelength of the light was equal to Lambda = h/p. The term p comes from the energy-momentum formula; for the light the restmass = 0 so E =pc etc. As...

Hi, I am new to the Pilot Wave theory. In my understanding this theory gives a hope for reconstruction of the realism. But I have several maybe naif questions. What is the wavelength of the pilot wave? Is it the same as deBroglie wavelength formula? Very often people use the walking droplets...

If there is an light source that is emitting light with the wl of 450nm (blue) and it illuminated a low reflective red object. How would the wavelength be different then if the object was a white object or the emitted light is from a white led. How would we determine this. I am working on a...

In the electromagnetic wave lengths say from x-rays to the 21 cm hydrogen line, the wave has a wave length. When it hits a receiver, eye, camera sensor whatever, it is turned into an electrical signal that can be interpreted by that device. Now we get to my question, is there an echo of that...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution [/B] De – Broglie wavelength of ## O_2 ## molecule is ## \lambda = \frac h p ## Assuming that the speed of molecule is small enough to take non – relativistic calculation, ## \frac {...

Homework Statement Hello, If one can see the image I posted, the question that follows is this: Use the information provided to obtain a value for the wavelength of sound emitted. The signal is at maximum intensity at X, and minimum at Y. http://uploads.im/7wJOq.jpg Homework Equations Now I...

The velocity of light changes when it passes through a medium of a different refractive index. So let's suppose the light is traveling through a vacuum at a velocity c and then passes through a glass wall. Its velocity decreases while traveling through it but then speeds back up to c after...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution E = (13.6 – 3.4 = 10.2)eV = ## \frac {hc } { \lambda } ## =1.22 * 10^{-5} cm So, the correct option is (a). Is this correct?

I would like to start growing plants in an artificial simulated environment with very low cost, hence i would like to know whether if i could vary the wavelength of light using a normal led light by varying voltage or current

Homework Statement https://imgur.com/a/9UhMA Homework Equations Wavelength = planks constant/ mass*velocity The Attempt at a Solution (6.626*10^-34)/((9.11*10^-31)(.01*10^8)) = .728nm which is an option but they have .243nm as the answer and I don't know where I did it wrong or what I...

Homework Statement A beam of white light goes from air into water at an incident angle of 75 deg. What is the critical angle that the violet (410 nm) parts of the light is refracted? Homework Equations n1sin(θ1)=n2sin(θ2) n=c/v c=λf The Attempt at a Solution So sure, I get that the answer is...

I know to produce an observable inteference pattern two waves must be coherent(same frequency/phase differnce). Do coherent waves therefore always have the same wavelength? Is it possible to have interference between two waves with the same frequency and different wavelengths, and if so what...

Homework Statement A long, heavy rope hangs straight down from a high balcony on an apartment building. The lower end of the rope hangs about 1.0 m above the ground. If you grab onto the lower end and waggle it back and forth with constant frequency f, a wave travels up the rope. What would...

I am in a chemistry class, and there was an in class example on how to do this type of problem, but then when I looked in the book, there wasn't an equation. the questions are related to what the wavelength will be when electrons are moving between orbitals.

In the "Introduction to Solid State Physics" by C. Kittel, there is a long wavelength limit in chapter 4 -Phonons I. When Ka << 1 we can expand cos Ka ≡ 1 - ½ (Ka)2 the dispersion relation will become ω2 = (C/M) K2 a2 Does anyone know what frequencies can allow this long wavelength limit to hold?

Using a green laser instead of a red laser seems to change the way the ray changes during refraction. Why is that so?