Homework

2: Due January 26, 2017

1. The stopping potential for photoelectrons emitted from a surface illuminated by light of
wavelength 4910 is 0.71 eV. When the incident wavelength is changed the stopping
potential is found to be 1.43 eV. What is the new wavelength?

2. An electron and a photon each have a wavelength of 2.0 . (a) What are their momenta?
(b) Compare the kinetic energies of the electron and the photon.

3. Consider Compton scattering of a photon by a moving electron. Before the collision the
photon has wavelength l and is moving in the +x direction, and the electron is moving in
the x direction with total energy E (including its rest energy mc2). The photon and
electron collide head-on. After the collision, both are moving in the x-direction (that is,
the photon has been scattered by 180). Derive an expression for the wavelength # of the
scattered photon. Show that if ( , where m is the rest mass of the electron, your
result reduces to

#
( (
= 1+
4


4. For relativistic particles the de Broglie relation still holds. Show that the de Broglie
wavelength of a particle of kinetic energy K and rest mass m is



=
+ 2 (