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Chapter 13 Answers to Selected Problems
Additional Problems
A 0.6 (a) (b) (c)
A 0.7 (a) (b)
A 0.8
A 0.9 (a) (b) (c)
A 0.11 left side: to left; right side: to right.
A 0.18
A 0.20.b
A 0.22
A 0.23
A 0.24
A 0.31 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
A 0.36 (a) (b) (c)
A 0.45 (a) (b)
A 0.48 (a) infrared, (b)
A 0.51 (b) (c)
A 0.55
A 0.59 (a) (b) (c) (d)
A 0.72
A 0.73
A 0.80
A 0.82 (a) minimum; (b)
A 0.84
A 0.86 (b) (c)
A 0.88 (a) \(\frac{1}{1600\pi}\Xunits{m\)^{-2} (b) (c) \(P_A = \frac{1}{1000\pi}\Xunits{m\)^{-2} \(P_B = \frac{1}{2000\pi}\Xunits{m\)^{-2} (d)
A 0.90 (a) (c) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (l) (m) (n)
A 0.91 (a) (b) (c)
A 0.92 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
A 0.96 (b)
A 0.99 (a) (b) (c)
A 0.103
A 0.104 (a) (b) (c)
Chapter 1
Exercise 1.9.2. (b)
Exercise 1.9.5.
Exercise 1.9.7.
Exercise 1.9.9. (b)
Chapter 2
Exercise 2.7.1.
Exercise 2.7.3. (a)
Exercise 2.7.4. (a) or smaller, (b) or smaller,
Exercise 2.7.5. or
Exercise 2.7.6.
Exercise 2.7.7. (a) (b) so no chemical bonds affected, including those in DNA.
Exercise 2.7.10. (a) (b) (c)
Exercise 2.7.13.
Chapter 3
Exercise 3.6.4. (a) 0.42; (b) 0.27.
Exercise 3.6.5. (a) (b)
Exercise 3.6.6.
Exercise 3.6.7. (a) (b) (c) (Hint: do you think the binding energy for a proton in a nucleus is 1 eV?)
Exercise 3.6.10. (a) or (b) or (c) or
Exercise 3.6.13. (a) Works if and (b) Doesn't work for all values of
Exercise 3.6.14. (b) Doesn't work; (c) Works if which is fine since (d) Would work if but so this would be an imaginary
Exercise 3.6.16. for a solution.
Chapter 4
Exercise 4.7.1. (b) (c)
Exercise 4.7.2. (a) (b)
Exercise 4.7.4. and
Exercise 4.7.10. (a) m (b) (c)
Exercise 4.7.12.
Exercise 4.7.13.
Exercise 4.7.14. (a) (b)
Exercise 4.7.16. and
Chapter 5
Exercise 5.7.3. (a) (b) (c)
Exercise 5.7.5. (a) (b) (c) (d) 0.
Exercise 5.7.6. (a) (b)
Exercise 5.7.7. (b) (c) (d) (e)
Exercise 5.7.10. (a) (b)
Exercise 5.7.11.
Exercise 5.7.14.
Exercise 5.7.17. (a) (b) 0; (c) There are numerous answers to this question. The easiest are or or or There are also numerous combinations that would work, as long as
Exercise 5.7.19. (a) Two equal intensity beams (1/4 the intensity of the intensity of the initial electron beam) will emerge, one with and the other with (b) A beam will emerge from just one of the two exits with This beam will be 1/2 the intensity of the initial electron beam.
Chapter 6
1. (a) electrons are indistinguishable, (b)
2. Yes for both (a) and (b). Electrons and muons are distinguishable.
3. (b) 4 for classical, 3 for bosons, 1 for fermions; (c) for classical, for bosons.
4.
8. He is a fermion.
10. 0 (that's the point!).
Chapter 7
3.
4.
7. (a) and (b) and (c) and
9. Would expect poor conductivity at moderate conductivity at and excellent conductivity at
11. (a) (near-IR); (b) (yellowish green); (c) (near-UV).
15. (b)
Chapter 8
1. (a) 3/10, (b) 7/10.
3. (a)
4. (a) 0.55; (b) (c)
7. 0.854.
9. (a) 0.75, (b) 0.67.
Chapter 9
Exercise 9.8.2. Mesons are bosons, baryons are fermions.
Exercise 9.8.6. (a) (b) (c)
Exercise 9.8.7. (a) yes, (b) no, (c) no, (d) yes.
Exercise 9.8.10. Does not conserve charge.
Exercise 9.8.11.
Exercise 9.8.12. (a) (b) (c)
Exercise 9.8.13. This requires two -quarks, with total charge No single quark can add
Exercise 9.8.14. (a) or (b) or (c)
Chapter 10
Exercise 10.8.2. (a) 1.022 \mathrm{MeV}, (b)
Exercise 10.8.3. (a) (b) (c)
Exercise 10.8.8. antigreen.
Chapter 11
Exercise 11.6.3. About two protons should decay.
Exercise 11.6.4. Only
Exercise 11.6.5. (a) strong, (b) electromagnetic, (c) weak.
Exercise 11.6.7. (a) There are no lighter baryons with (b) weak; strangeness is not conserved, (c) weak interaction is slower than strong or electromagnetic.
Exercise 11.6.8. decays much faster; it can decay by the strong interaction; while the lighter must go by a weak interaction.
Exercise 11.6.9. Photons or leptons. Because the weak decay to leptons is much slower than the electromagnetic decay to photons.
Chapter 12
Exercise 12.6.2. about to
Exercise 12.6.6. about pions
Exercise 12.6.9. a) 5730 5640 330 300 b) 1910 baryons, 1880 antibaryons, c) 30 baryons, 30 leptons, 2180 photons, d) 72.7