Chem 110 part 1 Flashcards
What is light?
Electromagnetic radiation
The distance a wave travels in one cycle
Wavelength
Number of cycles a wave undergoes in one second
Frequency
One half the height of a wave from peak to trough
Amplitude
The distance a wave moves per unit of time
Speed
Wavelength and frequency are ______?
Inversely proportional
Equation for the speed of a ware
Wavelength x frequency
Unique properties of a wave (3)
- waves undergo refraction from one medium to another 2.waves bend around an object 3. interference of waves can result in diffraction
What kinds of diffraction are there?(2)
Constructive and destructive
Which 3 major observations concerning matter and light could not be described by a classical definition?
Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, and atomic spectra
What is the concept that declares everything at a temperature emits radiation with the same shape curve, just shifted to shorter wavelength as things get warmer (making things visible when hot)
Blackbody radiation
What is a theoretical ideal model that absorbs all radiation falling on it-a perfect absorber or emitter
A blackbody
The theoretical models in blackbody radiation as functions of temperature fit the observed experimental blackbody curves well at_______ wavelengths, but showed significant discrepancies at _______ wavelengths. This was known as the ______catastrophe.
- Longer
- Shorter
- Ultraviolet
Who derived a mathematical expression to describe the phenomenon of blackbody radiation by theorizing that energy only assumed certain values?
Max Planck
Energy is _____when it only assumes certain values?
Quantized