CHM 2353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Metal, Diamagnetism, Pauli Exclusion Principle

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The h atom has only certain energy levels, called stationary states. Each state is associated with a xed circular orbit of the electron around the nucleus. The higher the energy level, the farther the orbit is from the nucleus. When the h electron is in the rst orbit, the atom is in the ground state - its lowest energy sate. The atom does not radiate energy while in one of its stationary states. The atom changes to another stationary state by absorbing or emitting a photon. The energy of the photon equals the difference between the energies of the two energy states. When the electron is in any orbit higher than n = 1, the atom is in an excited state. Since matter is discontinuous and particulate, perhaps energy is also discontinuous and particulate. Planck: observed blackbody radiation and postulated that energy is quantized - only certain values are allowed. Einstein: observed photoelectric effect > light has particulate behaviour (photons)

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