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Light is
Pure energy and has no mass
Light behaves much like
A wave of
The top of the wave is the
The bottom of the wave is the
Crest
Trough
Distance between each trough or each crest is
Represented by the symbol
Measured in
A wavelength
Lambda
Meters
Frequency
Units? Symbol?
of wavelengths that pass a given point per second
Hertz HZ
Nu (v)
Velocity
Wavelength * Frequency
What is a photon
Streams of tiny packets of energy
Light waves are also known as
Electromagnetic Radiation
ROY G BIV
Which way does energy go
Less energy ——- More Energy
E-M
Electromagnetic radiation
Most EM/light comes from ___ and is a result of _____
Within the atom
Excited electrons falling back to ground state
How do electrons move to higher energy levels. What is this called
By absorbing distinct amounts of energy called Quanta
The excited state
Electrons in the excited state are
Therefor
Unstable
They fall back to the “ground state”
What electrons are most stable
Those in the lowest energy level
When electrons fall
How fall it falls
It gives off EM radiation/light
Determines what type of radiation is emitted
Hydrogen in an excited state
emits a photon to return to a lower energy state
Hydrogen only emits
Certain colors of visible light when it releases a photon
We only see
Selected colors, not those that give off white light.
Hydrogen has discrete
energy levels that are quantized
Every hydrogen
Falls in the same ways and gives off the same light.
Hydrogens energy levels are quantized
What does quantized mean
A set of steps, only certain values are allowed.
Bohr model
Only works for
Is it correct
Electrons orbit the nucleus
Different orbits equal different energy levels
Hydrogen
No
Wave mechanical model
Electrons do not orbit the nucleus
Predicts the probability of finding an electron at given points around the nucleus.
With the wave mechanical model location of electrons is shown using a
Probability map.