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| the fixed energies an electron can have |
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| the amount of energy required to move an electron from one energy level to another energy level |
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| determines the allowed energies an electron can have and how likely it is to find the electron in various locations around the nucleus of an atom |
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| for each energy level the schrondinger equation also leads to a mathematical expression |
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| the way in which electrons are arranged in a various orbitals around the nuclei of an atom |
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| electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first |
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| pauli exclusion principle |
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| an atomic orbital may describe at most two electrons |
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| a quantum mechanical property of electrons and may be thought of as clockwise or counterclockwise |
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| electrons occupy orbitals of the same energy in a way that makes the number of electrons with the same spin direction as large as possible |
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| is the waves height from 0 to the crest |
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| represented by (the greek letter lambda) is the distance between the crests |
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| represented by v (the greek letter nu) is the number of wave cycles to pass a given point per unit of time |
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| The SI unit of cycles per second |
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| electromagnetic radiation |
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| includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet waves, X-rays, and gamma waves. |
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| when light passes through a prism the different wavelengths separate into a spectrum of colors |
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| the wavelengths of these spectral lines are characteristic of the element and they make up the atomic emission spectrum of the element |
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| the constant (h) which has a value of 6.6326*10-34J*J*s(J is the joule the SI unit of energy) |
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| electrons are ejected when light shines on a metal |
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| when the electrons has its lowest possible energy |
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| heisenberg uncertainty principle |
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| it is impossible to know both the velocity and the position of a particle at the same time |
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