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Quantized Energy and Photons
Wave-Particle Duality
The Heinsenberg Uncertainty Principle
Bonus
100
high frequency
What is hf?
100
the wavelength associated with a particle that has momentum
What is de Broglie wavelength?
100
the process in which a particle moves, or tunnels, through a region of space that is forbidden to it in classical physics
What is quantum tunneling?
100
energy taking on only discrete values
What is quantized energy?
200
to exist in discrete units that cannot be broken into smaller units
What is quantized?
200
the connection between waves and particles in which waves are like particles and particles are like waves
What is wave-particle duality?
200
the principle stating that it is impossible to know the precise position and the precise momentum of a particle at the same time
What is Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
200
frequency level above or below where a device fails to operate.
What is cutoff frequency?
300
discrete bundles of light energy that obey Planck's hypothesis of energy quantization
What is photon?
300
the law that states that the peal in a blackbody radiation curve moves to a higher frequency as the temperature increases.
What is Wien's Displacement Law
300
a phenomenon in which a beam of light hits the surface of a metal and ejects electrons.
What is photoelectric effect?
400
an ideal object that absorbs all of the light (and other electromagnetic radiation) that strikes it
What is blackbody?
400
the law that states that the peal in a blackbody radiation curve moves to a higher frequency as the temperature increases
What is Wien's Displacement Law?
500
w₀ - the minimum amount of energy necessary to eject an electron from a particular metal
What is work function?