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Light and Quantized
Chapter 5 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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What is electomagnetic radiation? | a form of energy that exhibits wavelinke behavior as it travels through space. |
What is wavelength? | is the shortest distance between equivalent points on a continuous wave. |
what is frenquency? | is the number of waves that pass a given point per second. |
what is amplitude? | a wave is the wave's height from the orgin to a crest, or from the orgin to a trough. |
what is electromagnetic spectrum? | types of radiation being their frequencies and wavelenghts. |
what is quantum? | the mininmum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an atom. |
what is planck's constant? | has a value of 6.626*10^-34 J is the symbol for the joule, the SI unit of energy. |
what is photoelectric effect? | emmitted from a metal's surface when light of a certain frenquency shines on the surface. |
what is photon? | with no mass that carries a quantum of energy |
what is atomic emmission specturum? | electromagnetic waves emitted by atoms of the element. |