Friday, November 03, 2006
AP lately
Thursday: we discussed the blackbody radiation results and how that led to Planck's Quantum Theory of Light; that theory was tested and found to be consistent with the evidence from the Photoelectric Effect.
FYI: Einstein won the Nobel Prize for this experiment and his interpretation of the results BUT HE DIDN'T win a Nobel for his mind-blowing Special Theory of Relativity AND (lightning struck TWICE) his General Theory of Relativity; E=mc^2, ever heard of that?? How many people have ever heard of the photoelectric effect? That's right, just you and me!!! What was UP with that Nobel committee??? I think I know why they didn't give him another prize and I think that there might be unsavory reasons for such an oversight.
We then applied Planck's equation mathematically/quantitatively.
Friday: we discussed bright-line emission spectra (visible and higher energy EMISSION SPECTRA DO NOT OCCUR AT ROOM TEMPERATURE! A sample has to be abnormally excited to produce the gamut of emitted photons!)
We related this evidence to Bohr's proposed Model of the atom. We discussed the mechanism of how this model matches the emission spectrum of hydrogen (video will be posted on the website!).
FYI: Einstein won the Nobel Prize for this experiment and his interpretation of the results BUT HE DIDN'T win a Nobel for his mind-blowing Special Theory of Relativity AND (lightning struck TWICE) his General Theory of Relativity; E=mc^2, ever heard of that?? How many people have ever heard of the photoelectric effect? That's right, just you and me!!! What was UP with that Nobel committee??? I think I know why they didn't give him another prize and I think that there might be unsavory reasons for such an oversight.
We then applied Planck's equation mathematically/quantitatively.
Friday: we discussed bright-line emission spectra (visible and higher energy EMISSION SPECTRA DO NOT OCCUR AT ROOM TEMPERATURE! A sample has to be abnormally excited to produce the gamut of emitted photons!)
We related this evidence to Bohr's proposed Model of the atom. We discussed the mechanism of how this model matches the emission spectrum of hydrogen (video will be posted on the website!).
# posted by C @ 9:43 AM 
