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CHEMICAL SCIENCES (NET-JRF/GATE)

Unit Test: Quantum Chemistry
Time : 00: 50 Hour Date : 04-02-2014
Batch-I M.M. : 50
Instructions:
1. Question Paper contains 25 objective type questions, each question carry 2 marks.
2. There is negative marking, 0.5 mark will be deducted for each wrong answer
3. Attempt all the questions, use of calculator is not allowed.

1 h 2 d 2
1. For Eigen function sin 3.63x , the eigenvalue of operator 2 is :
 8 m dx 2

 3.632 h 2  3.632 h 2 2
  3.63 h 2
2
  3.63 h 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
83m 8 2 m 83m 8 2 m
2. For a particle in a one D box with infinite walls at x=0 and in the n = 3 state, the probability for finding the
L
electron in the range 0  x  is:
4

1 1
(a) Greater than (b) Exactly
3 6
1
(c) Exactly (d) None of the above is correct.
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3. Which one of the following statement is true about the particle in 1D box with infinite wall.
(a)   32 dx  0 because these wavefunction are orthogonal.

(b)  1 3dx  0 because both these function are symmetric.

(c)  1 2 dx  0 because these wavefunction are normalised.

(d)  1 3dx  0 because these wavefunction are orthogonal.

4. Which of the following is true

Lx , x  0  L x , L y   iL z  x, y  0  Lx , Lz   iL y

2
L , p   0 L , Lx   0
(a) x x (b)  L x , y   i p z (c)   (d)  x 
y, p  0
 x, px   0  y, px   0  y, p y   0  Lx , x   0
5. Consider a quantum mechanical problem where the eigenfunction is the spherical harmonic
Ym with   1 and m1  0, i.e. Y10  ,    N cos 
Find the normalization constant N.

(a) 3 / 6 (b) 3 / 2  (c) 3 /  (d) 3 / 4 

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6. Given two hermitian operator A and B, we construct the following four additional operator.
AB, ABA, i  AB , A 2 B
Choose the correct option from below.
(a) All the 4 operator are hermitian (b) Only 3 of these operator are hermitian.
(c) Only 2 of these operator are Hermitian (d) Only 1 of operator is hermitian.
7. Which of the following pairs of operator commute?
2 d 3 d2
(a) x and (b) x and
dx dx 2
d2 d d2 2 d d2
(c) 2 and  2 (d) x and
dx dx dx 2 dx dx 2
8. Consider the following statement:
(1) All eigenvalues are real.
(2) Eigenfunction of Hamiltonian operator are orthogonal to each other.
(3) Two Hermitian operator A and B commute and A and B are Hermitian. Separately than AB is also Hermitian.
(4) The eigenvalue of anti Hermitian are either purely imaginary or equal to zero
Which of these are true
(a) 1, 2, 3 (b) 1, 3, 4 (c) 2, 3 (d) 1, 2, 3, 4

9. Consider a free particle of mass m moving in one dimension . Than  Ĥ, x  

(Where H and x are Hamiltonian and momentum operator)
i h pˆ p̂ h pˆ h pˆ
(a) (b) i (c) (d) 
2 m m 2 m 2 m
10. Given two hermitian operator A and B. We construct the following three additional operator.
AB or A 2 B, AB2
ABA
Choose the correct option as below
(a) All these four operator are hermitian. (b) Only 3 of these are hermitian.
(c) Only two of these are hermitian (d) Only one of the operator is hermitian.
11. A electron of mass ‘m’ is confined to a one dimensional box of length 2b. It makes a radiative transition from
3rd excited state to ground state then, the frquency of transtion
15h 15h h h
(a) (b) (c) 8 mb 2 (d) 32 mb 2
32mb 2 9mb 2
 
12. The second excited state wave function of a particle between  to + is:
2 2

2 3x 2 3x 1 3x 1 3x

(a) cos (b) cos (c) cos (d) cos
   2  2  

13.  L x , L y  and  L x , y  is respectively

h i h h
(a) iL z , z (b) L z ,i z (c)  L z , i z (d) L z , i z
2i 2 2i 2i

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14. An operator A is defined as A    ix . Then
dx
(a) A is hermitian (b) A is antihermitian
(c) AA † and AA † are antihermitian (d) None of these
15. The wave function for a quantum mechanical particle in a one dimensional box of length ‘a’ is given by
2x
  A sin . The value of A for a box of length 100 nm is:
a
1 1  12  12
(a) .141 nm  2 (b) .282 nm  2 (c) 10 2  nm  (d) 0.1  nm 

16. If the  n , ,m are the eigenfunction of the operator L2x  L2y then what is the eigenvalue.

(a)     1  2 (b) m 2  2 (c)   1  2  m 2  2 (d)     1  2  m 2  2

17. A particle is moving in one dimension between x = a and x = b. The potential energy is such that the particle can
A
not be outside these limit and the wave function in between is   . The average value of x is:
x

ab ab b ab b ab a
(a) (b) n (c) n (d) n
ba ba a ba a ba b

18. The commutator  x 2 , p 2  is

(a) 2 i xp (b) 2i  xp  px  (c) 2ipx (d) 2i  xp  px 

r
 r   2a 0
19. The electronic wavefunction  for hydrogen atom in 2s state is   2   e , than the value of r is:
 a0 

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(a) a0 (b) 6a0 (c) 2a0 (d) None of these
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20. The probability of finding the electron between 0 to 2a0 for 1s orbital of H-atom.
2
R1s  3
e  r / a0
a0 2
(a) 32% (b) 76% (c) 64% (d) 84%

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21. For the particle in box problem in (0, L). The value of x in the n   limit would be

L3 L3 L3 L4
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6 3 4 4
2
22. Operator  x,  x, p   is identical with

2 2
(a)  px ,  x, p  (b)  x p ,  x, p  (c)   p,  x , p   (d)  x  x , p  

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23. An electron in a one-dimensional infinite well, defined by V  x   0 for  a  x  a and V  x    otherwise,

goes from the n  4 to the n  2 level. The frequency of the emitted photon is 3.43×1014 Hz. Find the width
of the box.
(a) 8.92  1010 m (b) 17.84  1010 m
(c) 4.46  102 m (d) None of thes
24. The quantum-mechanical probability of finding the particle in a one-dimensional ‘box’ in the middle third of the
‘box’ for first excited state is:
(a) 0.20 (b) 0.40 (c) 0.60 (d) 0.33

25. Three real function 1 ,  2 and  3 are normalised and orthogonal normalize constant of the wave function

1 3
Z  1  2  3 is
2 2
1 1 1 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 6 2 2

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CHEMICAL SCIENCES (NET-JRF/GATE)

Unit Test: Quantum Chemistry
Date : 04-02-2014

[ANSWERS]

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8. (d) 9. (a) 10. (d) 11. (a) 12. (a) 13. (c ) 14. (d)
15. (a) 16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (b) 19. (b) 20. (b) 21. (c)
22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (a)

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