Energy Levels and Photon Emission
Cards (21)
- How can energy levels be represented?
- What does the line at the bottom of energy levels represent?
- What do the lines above the ground state represent?
- What does the line at the top of energy levels represent?
- What happens when an electron moves from a higher to a lower energy state?
- How is the energy of the emitted photon related to energy levels?
- What occurs when excited atoms emit light?
- What do the emitted light lines in line spectra represent?
- What is unique about each element's spectral lines?
- What are the two types of line spectra?
- What results from an electron transitioning to a lower energy level?
- What does the emission spectrum contain?
- What does each emitted photon correspond to?
- What is the equation relating energy change and photon frequency?
- What does the wave equation relate to in terms of emitted or absorbed radiation?
- What happens to wavelength as energy difference increases?
- What does a larger energy difference indicate about wavelength?
- What does photon energy and wavelength relationship indicate?
- What does the largest energy change correspond to?
- What does the smallest energy change correspond to?
- What is important about assigning energy levels E1 and E2?