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The width of the potential well
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.8 O An electron is trapped in a one-dimensional infinite well
and is in its first excited state. Figure 39-27 indicates the five longest
wavelengths of light that the electron could absorb in transitions
from this initial state via a single photon absorption: A, = 80.78 nm,
A, = 33.66 nm, A = 19.23 nm, A, = 12.62 nm, and A, = 8.98 nm.
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Figure 39-27 Problem 8.
A sodium atom in one of the states labeled “Lowest excited levels” in Fig. remains in that state, on average, for 1.6 * 10-8 s before it makes a transition to the ground state, emitting a photon with wavelength 589.0 nm and energy 2.105 eV. What is the uncertainty in energy of that excited state? What is the wavelength spread of the corresponding spectral line?
A physicist makes many measurements of the frequency of light emitted when a electron transitions from a particular excited state of an ion. For the system she is studying, the only allowed transition from the excited state is to the ground state. Her measurements have an average value of favg=2.13×1015 Hz with a standard deviation of ?f=17.4×106 Hz.
What is the minimum lifetime Δtmin of the excited state in seconds?
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