Astronomy 161 - Winter 2008
Professor Terndrup
1/28/08
Tools for Astrophysics: Light and atoms
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Reading: Chapter 4, sections 1-4
Vocabulary terms (see the textbook for definitions):
- photons
- electromagnetic wave
- wavelength
- frequency
- speed of light = (frequency) &\times; (wavelength)
- electromagnetic spectrum
- Planck's constant
- energy level diagram
- photon energy = (Planck's constant) × (frequency)
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