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electrons and light
light and electron energy relationship
Question | Answer |
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A packet of light energy. | Photon |
The lowest possible energy state of an electron | Ground State |
An electron that is in energy levels that are farther from the nucleus than those in its typical ground state | Excited STate |
Bright lines that are produced when electrons lose energy as they fall back to their ground state configuration. | Emission Spectrum |
A spectrum where certain bands of color are absent or are seen as black lines on the spectrum. | Absorption Spectrum |
A spectrum where one color blends into the next and all visible colors are represented. | Continuous Spectrum |
The distance between to identical part of neighboring waves. Units: meters, nanometers | Wavelength |
The capacity for doing work. | Energy |
A test where electrons are excited when placed in a flame and the emit (give off) a characteristic color when they fall back to their ground state. | Flame Test |
Electrons can absorb a photon and use the energy to move from the ground state to an excited state. | Absorbtion |
Electrons can emit a photon of a particular frequency when they fall back to their ground state. | Emission |
All of the colors of light | ROYGBIV |
The color of light of the LONGEST wavelength | Red |
The color of light of the SHORTEST wavelength | Violet |
Name of the attraction between oppositely-charged particles. | Coulombic Attraction |
What kind of force exists between oppositely charged particles? | Attractive |
What kind of force exists between like-charged particles? | Repulsive |