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Bohr’s Third Postulate. A single photon is emitted whenever an electron jumps down from one orbit to another. Why do astronomers often use the terms color and temperature interchangeably when referring to stars?
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Bohr’s Third Postulate A single photon is emitted whenever an electron jumps down from one orbit to another.
Why do astronomers often use the terms color and temperature interchangeably when referring to stars? • Why did Bohr assume that the electrons do not radiate when they are in the allowed orbits?
In quantum mechanics the amplitude of a particle wave is called the wave function and is given the symbol Y.
If we are dealing only with one photon: At any point the square of the electric field strength is a measure of the probability that a photon will be at that location.
For a single particle: Y2 at a certain point in space and time represents the probability of finding the electron at the given position and time.
Important: there is no way to predict where one electron would hit the screen. We could predict only probabilities.
The main point of this discussion is this: if we treat electrons as if they were waves, then Y represents the wave amplitude. If we treat them as particles, then we must treat them on probabilistic basis.
The act of observing produces a significant uncertainty in either the position or the momentum of electron.
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