The Nature of Light
The highest frequency visible light.
What is Violet?
The observation that many metals emit electrons when light shines upon them.
What is The Photoelectric Effect?
The range of wavelengths emitted by a particular.
Solutions to the Schrodinger equation.
What are Wave Functions?
No two electrons in an atom can have the same four quantum numbers.
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
The interaction of two waves leading to an increase in the amplitude.
What is Constructive interference?
The amount of energy with which the electron is bound to the metal.
What is the Binding Energy?
The faster the electron is moving, the higher the kinetic energy and the shorter the wavelength.
What is the de Broglie relation?
A point where the wavefunction and the probability density both go through zero.
What is a Node?
The phenomenon in which some higher-level energy atomic orbitals share significant space with lower energy orbitals.
What is Penetration?
The distance between two successive crests on a wave.
What is Wavelength?
A packet of light.
What is a Photon?
An energy state higher in energy than the ground state.
What is an Excited State?
A region of atomic space where the probability of finding the electron is high.
What is an Orbital?
Elements in groups 1, 2 and 13-18.
What are the Main Group Elements?
Property that the determines the brightness of light.
What is Amplitude?
Sometimes light appears to behave like a wave at other times like a particle.
What is the Wave-particle Duality?
The electron: We cannot simultaneously measure its position and its velocity with infinite precision.
What is the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
It determines the energy of the electron and the size of the orbital.
What is the Principal Quantum Number?
Electrons located in the outermost principal energy level.
What are Core Electrons?
What occurs when a wave encounters a slit of the same size as the wavelength.
What is Diffraction?
The smallest increment of radiant energy that may be absorbed or emitted.
What is a Quantum?
The process where an electron transitions from a higher energy state to a lower one.
What is Relaxation?
The total probability of finding the electron within a distance r from the nucleus?
What is the Radial Distribution Function?
A situation in which two or more orbitals have the same energy.
What is Degenerate?