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JEE Advanced 2019 — Paper 2 — Question 12

A perfectly reflecting mirror of mass MM mounted on a spring constitutes a spring-mass system of angular frequency Ω\Omega such that 4πMΩh=1024 m−2\frac{4 \pi \mathrm{M} \Omega}{\mathrm{h}}=10^{24} \mathrm{~m}^{-2} with h as Planck's constant. N photons of wavelength λ=8π×10−6 m\lambda=8 \pi \times 10^{-6} \mathrm{~m} strike the mirror simultaneously at normal incidence such that the mirror gets displaced by 1μ m1 \mu \mathrm{~m}. If the value of N is x×1012\mathrm{x} \times 10^{12}, then the value of x is ____\_\_\_\_ -. [Consider the spring as massless]

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If vv is speed of mirror just after absorption of photons

Mv−N2 hλ=0⇒v=2NhMλ\mathrm{Mv}-\mathrm{N} \frac{2 \mathrm{~h}}{\lambda}=0 \Rightarrow \mathrm{v}=\frac{2 \mathrm{Nh}}{\mathrm{M} \lambda}

If ℓ\ell is the maximum compression in the spring

12kℓ2=12mv2\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{k} \ell^{2}=\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{mv}^{2}

⇒v=kmℓ\Rightarrow v=\sqrt{\frac{\mathrm{k}}{\mathrm{m}}} \ell

⇒2NhMλ=Ω×10−6\Rightarrow \frac{2 \mathrm{Nh}}{\mathrm{M} \lambda}=\Omega \times 10^{-6}

⇒N=Ω×10−6×Mλ2 h=8 T×10−6×10−6×Mλ2 h\Rightarrow \mathrm{N}=\Omega \times 10^{-6} \times \frac{\mathrm{M} \lambda}{2 \mathrm{~h}}=8 \mathrm{~T} \times 10^{-6} \times 10^{-6} \times \frac{\mathrm{M} \lambda}{2 \mathrm{~h}}

4πMλh×10−12=1024×10−12=1012\frac{4 \pi \mathrm{M} \lambda}{\mathrm{h}} \times 10^{-12}=10^{24} \times 10^{-12}=10^{12}

⇒x=1\Rightarrow \mathrm{x}=1

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Exam
JEE Advanced 2019
Paper
Paper 2
Subject
Physics
Chapter
Atomic Physics
Topic
Photon Theory of Light and Radiation Pressure
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