Wednesday, March 7, 2007

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The photoelectric effect Compton Effect

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In 1905 Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect, independently deducting Planck radiation consisted of particles with an energy proportional to its frequency, and contributing to the development of quantum physics. For this development, Einstein received Nobel Prize in 1928.

In the experiment, a beam of light strikes a metal. The action of radiation is electrons start of the plate, that the application of an electric field, leading to another plate "collector", to record an electric current in an ammeter, a way of quantifying the electrons that are emitted


What was found experimentally was:

- The electrons are emitted when the frequency of the light reaches a minimum value. Below this threshold, not output, regardless of the intensity of light.
- by applying a voltage of "braking" V between the collector and emitter, electrons can be slowed by this potential energy. Increasing this voltage, the intensity decreases, reaching a maximum value above which no electrons reach the collector, and the intensity is zero. This maximum value depends on the frequency, and is greater, the higher the frequency of radiation.

The explanation is simple if you consider light as a particle, a photon. Has a particular energy proportional to its frequency. This is absorbed by the electron, which must:
a) First out of the material. This costs an energy, called the work function.
b) Second, to move. With energy after spending the surplus needed to leave the material, the electron is set in motion with a kinetic energy.


hν = Φ + E c
c E = hν-Φ


Given a material with a work function Φ a photon should at least provide the energy to start the electron. If the photon energy is less than the work function, the electron can not be torn from the material. If the energy is greater than this value, then the excess energy is transformed into energy the electron kinetic moves. In the limiting case where all the energy is used to overcome the work function, but no kinetic energy to move:


The minimum frequency to produce the photoelectric effect is given by Φ / h


applying the brake electric potential V, the electron loses energy on its way, so that only those who will traverse the shortest path between the emitter and collector plate. By increasing the retarding potential, then you can get to the point that even these latter are able to reach. Then eliminating the potential energy of the electron in an amount equal to the kinetic energy that left the electron.


In the limiting case where the voltage stops all electrons, the kinetic energy equals the potential energy created by braking voltage, eV, where e is the electron charge.

c eV = E = hν-Φ



In this way the observed phenomena are explained the photoelectric effect.

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particles is perhaps most evident in the behavior as a particle in an electromagnetic wave, and that mathematical analysis of the problem is exactly like that if two particles collide, except that the expressions of energy and angular momentum of the photon not include the mass, but the wavelength.

A photon with wavelength λ, collides with an electron at rest. The photon energy and angular momentum exchanges with him, and is deflected at an angle θ, while the electron is equally diverted, in addition to acquiring a certain speed.
Before the collision, both the energy and the time correspond entirely to the photon and the electron is at rest. After the collision, the electron acquires a momentum p = m and and v, which is related to the kinetic energy E = p c and 2 / 2m e . The total energy and momentum must be equal to the initial, so the match:
The change in wavelength is not very large, ie, λ is similar to λ '. In these circumstances the first term on law is negligible, and can be ignored, so in the end, the equation for Compton scattering of photons by collisions with electrons is:

Friday, March 2, 2007

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quantum numbers

The description of the hydrogen atom by Bohr was a great success, despite being burdened with a series of ad hoc assumptions, the result of empirical observations. Also marks the beginning of a new way of describing nature.

physics (and science in general) is to describe the nature based on observable and measurable phenomena. Planetary orbits, for example, are described in terms of distance and guidance on a fixed point (the Sun) for each time step: describe what your path. Bohr's description, however, despite considering the atom as a small solar system (with the peculiarity of the quantification of the orbits), do not get these paths. It focuses instead on obtaining the energies that have electrons in their orbits, and how it changes it, because ultimately, is this phenomenon that can be observed and measured experimentally (the later development of quantum mechanics showed that even makes sense to calculate the trajectory of the electron). Thus, the description of an electron in an atom, is not to know its history, but what is your state , the orbit that takes information that is contained in the quantum number n .

Bohr atomic model explains perfectly the absorption and emission lines of a hydrogen atom. However, he had problems for atoms with more electrons. And even new lines were discovered in the hydrogen atom for which there was no solution.

azimuthal number

Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) proposed the inclusion of new quantum numbers. Of planetary motion, which is known as wider orbit is elliptical. Sommerfeld proposed azimuthal quantum number, l , as a measure of how it was elliptical orbit, its eccentricity. Sommerfeld found that the value varying from l l = 0 to the value l = n-1 being l = 0 a perfectly circular orbit. Thus, the number n no longer represents an orbit, without determining the distance from the core, means a layer which can contain from l = 0 to l = n-1 orbits, all the same distance from the nucleus

For example, for first layer ( n = 1), the only possible value of l is 0. That is, the first layer contains a single orbit is circular. layer n = 2 contains the 2 orbits l = 0 (circular), and l = 1 (elliptical) to n = 3, l = 0, l = 1 and l = 2, (3 orbits with varying degrees of eccentricity), and so on.

magnetic Number

Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) discovered in 1890 the effect that bears his name. Found that in a gas inside a magnetic field, some lines are unfolded, and appeared triplets around a common line. After inclusion of the azimuthal number, Bohr made new calculations by introducing the magnetic quantum number, m .

An electron orbiting a nucleus is an electric current, and as such, produces a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane in which the electron moves. It is a small magnet . By applying an external magnetic field, this magnet oriented, but this orientation is also quantized, so that it can take values \u200b\u200branging from m m =- l, to m = l .


The emergence of more and more lines, and more and more quantum numbers, is but proof of fine structure in the management of the electrons in the atom. Electrons are placed in layers, which differ in a quantity of energy. Within each layer, there is a difference in energy between each orbit, but is much smaller than that between layers, hence were discovered only when it increased the accuracy of the experiments. Moreover, the Zeeman effect reveals the existence of orbits that can be separated in energy by applying a magnetic field, revealing an internal structure of the orbits.



Spin Number

After inclusion of the numbers and azimuthal magnetic , the triplets were explained the Zeeman effect. However, the Zeeman effect also had other collections of lines (doublets), which were not explained by these numbers, called anomalous Zeeman effect .

Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) sensed the existence of a fourth quantum number, but was unable to realize the idea. Were instead George Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit Sam who proposed the quantum number spin, s, whose characteristic is not due to the orbit occupied in the atom, but the own rotation of the electron on itself.

The existence of an angular momentum (rotation) intrinsic electron was evidenced by the famous experiment of Stern and Gerlach : an electron beam through a nonuniform magnetic field. The interaction of the magnetic field with angular momentum causes the electrons to deviate from its path. According to classical physics, each electron would have an orientation of angular momentum with respect to the random magnetic field, so that everyone would suffer a distinct deviation, and the beam is open continuously over an area. However, it was observed that the beam is split into two beams clearly defined.

Prueba de la cuantización de Spin, según el experimento de Stern y Gerlach


This result suggests that the intrinsic angular momentum of the electron is quantized, and can only have two possible values \u200b\u200bof s: +1 / 2 and -1 / 2 , most often referred to colloquially spin up or spin down . This makes the value of spin rotation in a very strange phenomenon. The spin is to describe the symmetry of the rotation. Take

ace in the deck. If broken 360 degrees back to its position initial. This is equivalent to a spin s = 1 . If you take a French king in a deck, when rotated 180 degrees (half turn), will be like in its original position. This is an example of spin s = 2.

Spin=1 y Spi =2




The spin s = 1 / 2 means that it is necessary to rotate 720 ° (two laps) to regain the starting position. Rotation is very difficult to imagine. The closest thing is a movement like the following:

1 - Take an electron in the palm
2 - Rotate the hand inward, passing the electron under the arm to complete the turn. Now the electron has a spin, but the arm is in a forced position. The entire assembly electron-arm is not in the same position as at the beginning.
3 - Raise the arm (without pulling the electron), at the height of the head while touring the hand.
4 - The electron and arm are now in the same position as at the beginning, for which the electron has two turns. This would be something like the spin s = 1 / 2


Spin 1/2. Cuidadín con las dislocaciones de codo



With the inclusion of the quantum number completes the description of the possible states of the electrons in atoms. The combination of these four numbers identify the status and power they have, and may explain any emission or absorption line as the transition of an electron from one state to another NLMs n'l'm state's' .

The Bohr-Sommerfeld model can explain the experimental observations. However, based on some assumptions that are not shown, the quantization of varying amounts.

Until now, we can speak of a quantum physics, which simply applies quantization rules of physics and classical mechanics. The emergence of quantum mechanics can deepen the concepts, and give rise to themselves, these rules of quantization, and a series of new effects and implications, without equivalent in the classical world.

Annex


Electronic configuration of atoms

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Electronic configuration of atoms

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Once you know how to describe the electrons need to know how to sort the atom. To do so, exposed the Pauli exclusion principle , for which two electrons can have the same quantum numbers. Thus, there can be no more than two electrons in one orbital. Of the 4 quantum numbers, 3 of them describe the specific orbital, while the fourth is referred only to the electron (spin up / spin down).

and electrons are occupying each orbital, from the lowest energy at most.

traditionally to refer to a particular orbital, you specify the main number n, followed by a letter that represents the azimuthal number l:

To l = 0 , point s
To l = 1, point p
To l = 2, letter d
To l = 3, point f

Does not specify the number and m s as they are orbit equivalent to each other, which have equal energy and are only observed when a magnetic field, Zeeman effect.

order to know the energy that filled orbitals used a "recipe " builds a table of the orbital, and join with arrows like this:


This prescription, ordering is as follows: 1s 2s

2p 3s 3p 4s 3d 4p 5s 4d 5p 6s 4f 5d 6p 7s 5f 6d 7p ...

Electrons will fill these orbitals, and until it filled one, do not start the next. For example, an atom of Sodium (Na), with 11 electrons, it begins to fill the 1s orbital with two electrons. The next two are placed in layer 2s. In the layer fit 2p 6 electrons, as well attend 3 orbital energy (for m =- 1, m = 0 and m = 1), and the last electron is placed in the 3s orbital. When writing the electron configuration is indicated with a superscript the number of electrons there. The configuration of sodium is:

[Na] = 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6 3s 1



The 3s orbital has still room for one more electron. The same happens to the atoms of Hydrogen, Lithium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium and Francium: Its external orbital is an orbital s , and has room for one more electron. This gives them some chemical properties similar to them. Other atoms have in common other orbitals, and therefore have other properties.

The periodic table of elements the atoms ordered according to their electronic configuration, which gives them their chemical properties. Currently, the table comes up just past the element 105, whose external orbital (which is still being filled) is 5f.