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Atomic Theory Video Part II
Atomic Theory Video Part II
- Bohr stated that different elements gave off different colors that could explain the empty space in the atom. What do we call the colors given off by each atom?
- Bohr described the atom as a multi-story building and said that the elements could only live on the floors and not in-between. He said that sometimes they jumped from one floor down to a lower floor and called this what?
- What did Schrodinger’s wave function say?
- In 1925 Heisenberg stayed on an island and pondered and pondered and came up with a way to (sort of) explain the above problem. What was it called?
- What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
- In 1927 there was a showdown between the traditional physicists and the revolutionary physicists about what issue?
- The winner changed the view of the world. Quantum mechanics is considered to be the most successful theory of the universe. But it comes at a cost. What is that cost?