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1
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Why was quantum theory developed?

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Classical models where unable to explain experimental results like black body spectrum, atomic line spectrum and photoelectric effect.

2
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What are line spectra?

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It is when atoms absorb light at characteristic frequencies. It is a coloured band with black lines.

3
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What is the emission spectra?

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Atoms emit photons at specific frequencies. It is a black band with coloured stripes.

4
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How did Bohr’s model differ from others?

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It was able to explain the existence of atomic spectra and predict positions of the hydrogen spectra lines.

5
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How are electrons in the Bohr model treated?

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They are treated as standing waves.

6
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What do the transitions of electrons between quantised energy levels correspond to?

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The lines in the atomic spectra

7
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What is each transition a result of?

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A photon being absorbed or emitted.

8
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What must a photon have when used in a transition?

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The energy the corresponds exactly to the gap between energy levels.

9
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What are the short falls of the Bohr model?

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It cannot predict spectra of atoms other than hydrogen or explain line splitting.

10
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Why are electrons known as having wave-particle duality?

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Because they also have a wave nature.

11
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Spectra are composed of two parts…

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Continuous spectra and line spectra

12
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Spikes of increased intensify around a single wavelength are…

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Emission lines

13
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Dips in the spectrum around a single wavelength are…

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Absorption lines

14
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When is an atom happiest with its electrons?

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When they are in their ground state, ie with the lowest Englert they are allowed to have.

15
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What happens when you supply energy to an electron?

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It will jump to a higher level ie an excited state.

16
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What happen if you put a lot of energy into an electron?

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It will escape and the atom will become ionised.

17
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What does it it mean when energy levels are quantised?

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It means that electrons cannot be anywhere with any amount of energy. They must be at one of the levels and must have that levels corresponding charge.

18
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What does only allowing certain energies for an electron mean?

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It means an electron can only jump down by giving off a certain energy or jump up by absorbing that same certain energy.

19
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What does the amount of energy a photon have depend on?

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It’s frequency or wavelength, as they are related.

20
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How does an electron lose energy?

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It must get rid of it in the form of light, the frequency of which is fixed by the amount of energy change.

21
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What happen is a photon of a specific energy required by an electron comes along?

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The electron will absorb it a become excited.

22
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What gives patterns of line spectra?

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As only certain energy gaps are allowed for each element, only certain wavelengths of light can be produced or absorbed.

23
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What is the most obvious reason for line broadening?

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The Doppler effect

24
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What are the three methods of promoting an electron to a higher state?

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Heat
Bombardment- other electrons that have a high potential to produce discharge.
Photon bombardment- irradiation with a specific frequency to achieve a specific transition

25
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When are characteristic x-Ray’s emitted?

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When electrons in heavy elements make transition between the lower atomic energies.

26
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When is black body radiation emitted?

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By all objects at non-zero temperatures

27
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What does a black body spectrum look like?

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It is characteristic of the temperature of the body.

28
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What explains black body radiation?

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The quantisation of electromagnetic energies

29
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What are photons?

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Particles of electromagnetic energy

Packets of light

30
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What is the photoelectric effect?

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It is the ejection of electrons from a polished metal surface by incident light. The light must have a minimum frequency for this to occur.

31
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What does the minimum energy correspond to.

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The work function, W, of the metal

32
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What is cut off frequency?

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The minimum frequency of light needed to eject an electron from a metal surface.

33
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What does quantised mean?

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Existing in discrete amounts ie not able to be divided into arbitrarily small amount.

34
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What is a stopping voltage?

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The reverse bias voltage required to stop the flow of photoelectric so in a photoelectric effect.

35
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What is the ionisation energy of a material?

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It is the energy required to eject an electron from it, it’s work function.

36
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What is electron diffraction?

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The interference of electrons due to the interaction of their probability waves.

37
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What is wave particle duality?

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The dual nature of matter and energy, requiring both wave and particle models to completely explain all behaviour.

38
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Shorter wavelengths correspond with what kind of temperature?

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High temperatures

39
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How to fluorescent light bulbs work?

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The spectra of the gases inside them have sharp peak ie emit light in the visible spectrum.

40
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What metal will require the highest frequency light in order to emit photo electrons?

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Which ever metal has the highest work function.

41
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How do electrons differ from photons?

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Electrons have mass, photons do not
Photons always travel at c, electrons can have any v
Both act as a wave
Both produce intensity peaks at same position.

42
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What does deterministic mean?

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Everything is inevitable and with enough info the future can be precisely predicted

43
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What does probabilistic mean?

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There is a real element of chance, future cannot be precisely predicted.

44
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What is the significance of the negative sign at the ground state?

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It means being bound to the nucleus to form an atom is a lower energy state than being free, ie energy in needed to remove the electron

45
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Shortest wavelength corresponds to…

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Largest energy