Can more energy be added to the particles following the wave motion to increase the frequency?
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Katie Townsend
9/27/2012 10:48:05 am
Can you do this for nonvisible light?
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Rourke
10/4/2012 09:57:07 pm
Yes
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Ben Evans
9/27/2012 11:39:31 am
Since varying colors are produced by differing wavelengths and frequencies, and the temperature of the heat and the amount of electricity in the experiments were the same, does this mean that varying numbers of electrons (therefore producing differing wavelengths and frequencies) within each solution are the cause of the visible light variations that we perceived in the experiments?
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Rourke
10/4/2012 09:59:29 pm
Not necessarily the # of e-, but the number of energy levels that the e- can jump up to. For instance, an e- could jump from energy level #2 to energy level #5 and then fall back down to #4, #3, #2, or #1, each time emitting different energy and therefore a different color, i.e. the different colored spectral lines you witnessed during the ionized gas demo.
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Jake Schmidt
9/27/2012 09:20:05 pm
Why does radio waves have a larger wwavelength then x rays? is it because of electrons
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Rourke
10/4/2012 09:59:51 pm
Because radio waves have less energy!
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Lee Muglia
9/30/2012 01:04:59 am
Why are light waves not continuous while other waves can be? Is it because there are made up of indivdual particles? Also, where does Planck's constant come from?
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Lee Muglia
9/30/2012 01:06:20 am
I meant individual
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Rourke
10/4/2012 10:00:55 pm
Planck's constant is a number used that allows us to say that energy and frequency are directly proportional - as one increases, so does the other.