Chapter 7
Introduction to Quantum Theory
By Boundless
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In many cases, the properties of light can be explained as a wave, as was shown in Young's double-slit experiment.
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The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
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Interference and diffraction are terms that describe a wave interacting with something that changes its amplitude, such as another wave.
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Max Planck suggested that the energy of light is proportional to its frequency, also showing that light exists in discrete quanta of energy.
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The photoelectric effect is the propensity of high-energy electromagnetic radiation to eject electrons from a given material.
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The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen is divided into a number of spectral series.
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The Bohr model depicts atoms as small, positively charged nuclei surrounded by electrons in circular orbits.
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The de Broglie wavelength is inversely proportional to the momentum of a particle.
Only partial knowledge of the momentum and position of a particle may be known at the same time.
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A hydrogen atom is electrically neutral, containing a single proton and a single electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force.
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Quantum indeterminacy refers to the necessary incompleteness in the description of a physical system.
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Quantum numbers provide a numerical description of the orbitals in which electrons reside.
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The Pauli exclusion principle states that no two fermions can have identical wavefunctions.
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The particle in a box model provides one of the very few problems in quantum mechanics which can be solved analytically.
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The hydrogen atom is the simplest one-electron atom and has analytical solutions to the Schrödinger equation.
- Energy
- Introduction to Thermodynamics
- Enthalpy
- Calorimetry
- Standard Enthalpy of Formation and Reaction