One Response to “Early Model”

1. tdbosch
   May 2nd, 2011 @ 11:34 pm

   Famous scientists? None that stick out to me other than the basics, like the three laws of motion are attributed to Isaac Newton or the laws of electromagnetic induction are called Faraday's Law and Lenz' Law.

   Famous experiments? The only ones I have found in the course description are Compton's experiment which proved that photons are like particles in that their energy and momentum is conserved (pg. 763) and Davisson-Germer experiment which proved that electrons are like waves in that they can create diffraction patterns (pg. 767)

   Regarding decay, I don't see anything about decay series…just being able to determine mass number and charge after undergoing the different types of decay (alpha, beta, gamma).

   I have read that you do NOT need to know the various features of the early models of the atom (including the Rutherford and Bohr models) You do need to have an understanding of the quantum principle, i.e. the idea that electrons absorb or emit specific amounts of energy in order to transfer from level to level. Also, you need to know how to calculate the energy of a photon given off by electrons that move between levels. Also know how various emitted photons produce spectral lines.