A photon collides with a stationary hydrogen atom in the ground state inelastically. The energy of the colliding photon is 10.2 eV. After a time interval of the order of microseconds, another photon collides with the same hydrogen atom inelastically with an energy of 15 eV. What will be observed by the detector?
A photon collides with a stationary hydrogen atom in the ground state inelastically. The energy of the colliding photon is 10.2 eV. After a time interval of the order of microseconds, another photon collides with the same hydrogen atom inelastically with an energy of 15 eV. What will be observed by the detector?
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The first photon will excite the hydrogen atom (in the ground state) to the first excited state.
- 2 photons of energy 10.2 eV
- 2 photons of energy 1.4 eV
- One photon of energy 10.2 eV and an electron of energy 1.4 eV
- One photon of energy 10.2 eV and another photon of energy 1.4 eV
The Correct Option is C
Solution and Explanation
The first photon will excite the hydrogen atom (in ground state) to first excited state (as $E_2-E_1 = 10.2eV).$
- Hence, during de-excitation, due to the 10.2 eV photon, one photon of energy of 10.2 eV will be detected.
- The second photon of energy 15 eV can ionize the atom.
- The balance energy i.e. (15- 13,6)eV = 1.4 eV is retained by the electron.
- Therefore, by the second photon, an electron of 1.4 eV energy will be released.
$\therefore$ the correct answer is (c).
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Atoms
- The smallest unit of matter indivisible by chemical means is known as an atom.
- The fundamental building block of a chemical element.
- The smallest possible unit of an element that still has all the chemical properties of that element.
- An atom is consisting of a nucleus surrounded by one or more shells of electrons.
- Word origin: from the Greek word atomos, which means uncuttable, something that cannot be divided further.
All matter we encounter in everyday life consists of smallest units called atoms – the air we breath consists of a wildly careening crowd of little groups of atoms, my computer’s keyboard of a tangle of atom chains, the metal surface it rests on is a crystal lattice of atoms. All the variety of matter consists of less than hundred species of atoms (in other words: less than a hundred different chemical elements).
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