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chapter 5 vocabulary

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what is an atom?   a tiny indivisible particle  
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what is an isotope?   atom with same number of protons and electrons, but different number of neutrons.  
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what is radiation?   process in which substances spontaneously emit radiation  
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what is a neutron?   an uncharged elementary particle that has a mass nearly equal to that of the proton  
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what is wavelength?   the distance in the line of advance of a wave from any one point to the next point of corresponding phase  
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what is frequency?   the number of times that a periodic function repeats the same sequence of values during a unit variation of the independent variable  
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what is amplitude?   the maximum departure of the value of an alternating current or wave from the average value  
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what is quantum?   any of the small subdivisions of a quantized physical magnitude (as magnetic moment)  
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what is photon?   a unit of intensity of light at the retina equal to the illumination received per square millimeter of a pupillary area from a surface having a brightness of one candle per square meter  
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