| Chapter 1 |
Name | Description |
Radiation from an object due to thermal energy | |
Model for the hydrogen atom as proposed by Niels Bohr | |
Radius of the electron orbit in a hydrogen atom corresponding to the lowest energy energy solution of the Bohr model | |
Wavelength of a particle λ = h/p | |
The energy which an electron can have | |
Heat divided by absolute temperature | |
The average energy per particle when adding particles to a distribution but without changing the entropy or the volume. Chemists refer to this quantity as being the electro-chemical potential | |
Particles with half-integer spin | |
One of Maxwell's equations, stating that the gradient of the electric field equals the charge density, divided by the dielectric constant. | |
Thermal energy | |
An atom consisting of a proton and an electron | |
Quantum mechanical concept, which states that particles can behave as waves and waves can behave as particles | |
Emission of electrons from a metal when applying light with photon energy larger than the workfunction of the metal | |
Quantum of electromagnetic radiation | |
Second order differential equation which relates the potential, f, to the charge density, r. | |
Theory which describes particles by a wavefunction | |
Unit of atomic energy = 13.6 eV | |
Atomic states which are associated with one principle quantum number | |
A single solution to Schrödinger's equation defined by a unique set of quantum numbers | |
Energy associated with the temperature of an object | |
A system is in thermal equilibrium if every ongoing process is exactly balanced by its inverse. | |
Wave description of a localized particle | |
Mechanical energy | |
Potential an electron at the Fermi energy needs to gain to escape from a solid |