Question | Answer |
What is a form of energy that exhbits wavelike behavior as it travels through space? | electromagnetic radiation |
What is the shortest distance between equivalent points on a continuous wave | wave length |
What is the number of waves that pass a given point per second? | frequency |
What is the wave's height from the origin to a crest, or from the origin to a trough? | amplitude |
What encompasses all forms of electromagnetic radiation? | electromagnetic spectrum |
What is the minimum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an atom? | quantum |
What is h, that has the value of 6.626 * 10^-34 J.S, where J is the symbol for the joule? | Planck's constant |
In this electrons called photoelectrons are emitted from a metal's surface when light of a certain frequency shines on the surface? | photoelectric effect |
What is a particle of electromagnetic radiation with no mass that carries a quantum of energy? | photon |
What is the set of frequencies of the electromagnetic waves emitted by atoms of the element? | atomic emission spectrum |
What is the lowest allowable energy state of an atom? | ground state |
What predicts that all moving particles have wave characteristics? | de Broglie equation |
What states that it is fundamentally impossible to know precisely both the velocity and position of a particle at the same time? | Heisen berg uncertainty principle |
What is the atomic model in which electrons are treated as waves? | quantum mechanical model of the atom |
What is the three-dimensional region around the nucleus? | atomic orbital |
What is the quantum mechanical model assigned to indicate the relative sizes and energies of atomic orbitals? | principal quantum number |
What are the atom's major energy level? | principal energy level |
What are the energy levels contained within a prinicipal energy levels? | energy sublevel |