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Brownian Motion

 

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Highlight the questions you were assigned,
choose FILE, PRINT, SELECTION, PRINT

1. Photoelectric effect

a) What is the largest wavelength of light that will produce photoelectrons from lead?

 

b) What is the largest wavelength of light that will produce photoelectrons from lithium?

 

c) Which metal (lead or lithium) held its electrons stronger? (Hint: Which metal required a
    higher energy of light to create photoelectron emission)

 

d) Select the LOW INTENSITY button to change the light to HIGH INTENSITY.  Describe
    what happened to the light source in your animation.

 

e) What setting must you change in this simulation to change the current recorded by
    the ammeter on the bottom of this animation?

 

f) When you decrease the wavelength of light, you decrease, or increase the frequency. Underline

 

2. Rutherford Scattering - Michael Fowler

a) What happens to the size of the scattering angle when the alpha particle comes closer to
    the nucleus?

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3. Rutherford scattering applet - © 1995-2007 by Michael W. Davidson and The Florida State University

a) What do the yellow dots in the thin gold foil represent? 

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INSTRUCTIONS: Use the yellow drop down  menu on the top left to change the energy of the
                       alpha particle. 

b) Which energy on the drop down menu produces the least scattering angle?


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4.  Atomic Spectra - University of Oregon

INSTRUCTIONS: *** Change the applet  from ABSORPTION to EMISSION

Click on each element in Group 1 to see its spectral lines. (Group 1 is the first vertical column) 

Questions

a) Which element in group one has the fewest spectral lines ?   (Don't count Fr)

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b) Which element in group one produces the most spectral lines?

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c) Which element in the last group produces the most "low energy" spectral lines?

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5. Water in a Microwave

a) How does an increase in power effect the motion of the water molecule in this demo?

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b) Based on what you learned from this java applet, how does a microwave heat up food?

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6. One-dimensional one-atom gas

a) What happens to the speed of the gas molecule when you compress the gas?

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b) What happens to the temperature?

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7. Nuclear Chain Reaction

a) Why does splitting one of the atoms cause all the other atoms to split.

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