The Atom
No mass, Negative charge
Electron
Two or more atoms with the same number of protons and electrons but a different number of neutrons
Isotope
A bundle of energy
quantum, quanta is plural
Verified that light was wave
Thomas Young
A bomb that combines atomic nuclei
Fusion
Medium
What is required for sound to travel
No charge, mass 1amu
Neutron
A hydrogen atom with a weight of 2 and 1 neutron
Deuterium
A light particle
Photon
Believed light was a particle
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein
Three types of nuclear emissions
Alpha, Beta, Gamma
Wave-Particle Duality
What is light acting as both a wave and a particle
Discovered By Ernest Rutherford.
Nucleus
A hydrogen with a weight of 3 and 2 neutrons
Tritium
Einstein's Formula describing the conversion of mass to energy.
E = mc2
Performed the Gold Foil Experiment
Ernest Rutherford
A bomb or process that splits the atom
Fission
Interference
What waves do by adding to or subtracting from a wave
Mass 1 amu, Positively charged
Proton
Where did they separate Uranium 235 and Uranium 238?
Oak Ridge, TN
An atom that is energized has electrons that move from the ground state to the
excited state
Three men who began the Modern World of Classical Physics
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Transmutation
Changing one atom's nucleus into another
Needs no medium to travel
What is light?
Atomic number is based upon
The number of Protons
The simplest isotope of hydrogen with 1 proton and 1 electron.
Protium
An atom whose electrons move from the excited state to the ground state
Gives off a form of light.
Three men who revealed Quantum Physics
Neil Bohr
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Uranium Fission Emissions
1 Barium atom, 1 Krypton atom and 3 neutrons
Manhattan Project
A USA secret project that created the atomic bomb