Chapter 1: Q48E (page 1)

Question: Show that the normalization constant $\sqrt{15 / 32 π}$ given in Table 7.3 for the angular parts of the $l = 2, m_{l} = \pm 2$ wave function is correct.

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Answer

It has been proved that the normalization for the case $l = 2, m_{l} = \pm 2$ is correct.

Step by step solution

Given data

$Thewavefunctioncorrespondingto (l, m_{l}) = (2, \pm 2) is, Θ_{l, m_{l}} (θ) Φ_{m_{l}} (ϕ) = \sqrt{\frac{15}{32 π}} \sin^{2} θ e^{\pm 2 i ϕ}$

Normalization

$TheangularpartoftheHydrogenatomwavefunctionshouldsatisfytheconditionas: \int_{0}^{π} {Θ_{l, m_{l}} (θ)}^{2} 2 π s i n θ d θ = 1$

Determining whether the given normalization constant is correct

In the given wave function,

$Θ_{l, m_{l}} (θ) = \sqrt{\frac{15}{32 π}} \sin^{2} θ$

Check equation (I) as,

$= \frac{15}{32 π} \times 2 π \int_{0}^{π} \sin^{5} θ d θ = \frac{15}{16} \int_{0}^{π} \sin^{4} θ \sin θ d θ = \frac{15}{16} \int_{0}^{π} {(\sin^{2} θ)}^{2} \sin θ d θ = \frac{15}{16} \int_{0}^{π} {(1 - \cos^{2} θ)}^{2} \sin θ d θ$

Let us assume,

$\cos θ = z - \sin θ d θ = d z$

Then the integral becomes,

$= \frac{15}{16} \int_{1}^{- 1} {(1 - z^{2})}^{2} (- d z) = \frac{15}{16} \int_{- 1}^{1} (1 + z^{4} - 2 z^{2}) d z = \frac{15}{16} {[z + \frac{z^{5}}{5} - 2 \frac{z^{3}}{3}]}_{- 1}^{1} = \frac{15}{16} (2 + \frac{2}{5} - \frac{4}{3}) = 1$

Thus the normalization is correct.

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