Background of Quantum Mechanics

0.0(0)
learnLearn
examPractice Test
spaced repetitionSpaced Repetition
heart puzzleMatch
flashcardsFlashcards
Card Sorting

1/36

encourage image

There's no tags or description

Looks like no tags are added yet.

Study Analytics
Name
Mastery
Learn
Test
Matching
Spaced

No study sessions yet.

37 Terms

1
New cards

In quantum mechanics, microscopic is ___ as macroscopic

Not the same

2
New cards

The failures of classical mechanics

  1. Blackbody radiation

  2. Photoelectric effect

  3. Line spectra - spectroscopic transitions

3
New cards

Newton’s laws applied to the _

Motion of macroscopic objects

4
New cards

Maxwell’s _ applied to _

Electromagentic theory

Electricity, magnetism, and waves

5
New cards

Energy and other variables, change in a _ manner

Continuous

6
New cards

Physics was thought to be complete

19th Century

7
New cards

revealed the failure of classical mechanics in such systems

further probe of small body systems (atoms, electrons)

8
New cards

A principle that states the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature.

Stefan-Boltzmann Law

9
New cards

Stefan Boltzmann Law

knowt flashcard image
10
New cards

A law that describes the relationship between the temperature of a black body and the wavelength at which it emits radiation most strongly, stating that the wavelength is inversely proportional to the temperature.

Wien’s Law

11
New cards

Wien’s Law

knowt flashcard image
12
New cards

a perfect emitter

Blackbody

13
New cards

oscillations in the blackbody emit _

radiation

14
New cards

average energy of each oscillator

kT

15
New cards

in a blackbody, all incident radiation is _

absorbed

16
New cards

in a blackbody, the emitted radiation is a function of _

radiator’s temperature

17
New cards

classical mechanics predicts an __ intensity of emitted radiation as wavelength __

increasing; decreases

18
New cards

rayleigh-jeans law fails at

short wavelengths

19
New cards

rayleigh-jeans law

<p></p>
20
New cards

a prediction that an ideal black body would emit an infinite amount of energy in the ultraviolet range

uv catastrophe

21
New cards

introduced quantization of energy

max planck

22
New cards

the energy of electromagnetic oscillations have discrete values

quantization of energy

23
New cards

discrete energy eqn

knowt flashcard image
24
New cards

planck equation

knowt flashcard image
25
New cards
<p>wavelength description in</p>

wavelength description in

knowt flashcard image
26
New cards

planck constant

h = 6.626 × 10^-34 Js

27
New cards

photoelectric effect

particle behavior of light (wave)

28
New cards

KE of e- is _ to frequency

proportional

29
New cards

KE of e- is _ of intensity

independent

30
New cards

no of e- ejected is _ of frequency

independent

31
New cards

no of e- ejected is _ of intensity

proportional

32
New cards

foundation of quantum mechanics

einstein’s theory of photoelectric effect

33
New cards

photoelectric effect (formula)

1ev = 1.602 × 10^-19 J

<p>1ev = 1.602 × 10^-19 J</p>
34
New cards

line spectra series

1 - lyman

2 - balmer (vis)

3 - paschen (infrared)

4 - brackett

5 - pfund

6 - humphreys

35
New cards

rydberg equation

knowt flashcard image
36
New cards

Bohr frequency relation

\Delta E = hv

emission of light as photons

37
New cards