Atoms/Particles
These are where electrons can be found in the atom.
What are orbitals?
This type of reference frame is one that is not accelerating.
What is an inertial reference frame?
The momentum in relativity is modified to account for relativity in this way.
What is regular momentum times gamma?
"h-bar" is called the quantum constant and it has these units.
What are J*s?
This model of the atom imagined that negative charges were scattered about a positive background.
What is the plum pudding model?
When an electron goes from a high energy state to a low energy state, this is emitted.
What is a photon?
This is the theory of relativity that explains gravity and other effects due to acceleration.
What is general relativity?
The total energy in relativity is modified in this way.
What is gamma times the total energy?
This interpretation of quantum mechanics says that we are missing information and if we had it, quantum mechanics wouldn't appear so strange.
What is the Hidden Variables interpretation?
This model of the atom showed that the atom consists of a hard positive core (a nucleus).
What is the Rutherford model?
When an atom absorbs a photon, the atomic state is described as:
What is excited?
This was the precursor to special relativity that applies to objects traveling much less than the speed of light.
What is Galilean relativity?
E = mc^2 is a form of this kind of energy.
What is potential energy?
This interpretation of quantum mechanics imagines the wave function "collapsing" to a single value that we observe.
What is the Copenhagen interpretation?
These scientists gave evidence for the cosmic background radiation.
Who are Penzias and Wilson?
Electrons form this type of cloud around the nucleus.
What is a probability cloud?
This type of clock was what Einstein imagined when coming up with relativity.
What is a light clock?
True or False: Gravity is a force.
What is FALSE!? Gravity doesn't have an agent (see the elevator thought experiment), so it isn't a true force.
This phenomena essentially says that two quantum systems are really one shared quantum system.
What is entanglement?
These types of lines show that electrons are in definite orbitals in the atom.
What are spectral lines? (You should have seen these in your lab on spectroscopy).
The proton is composed of these types of quarks.
What are two up and one down quark?
True or False: The gamma factor is always greater than or equal to one.
What is true?
Light takes these paths in space.
What are geodesics?
This interpretation of quantum mechanics says that measurement causes different universes to exist.
What is the Many Worlds interpretation?
The neutron having a magnetic field, but no electric charge was evidence for these.
What are quarks?