Chapter 28 - Atomic Physics

The Nuclear Atom

  • Experimental setup
  • Closest approach
  • How small?

    Discrete and Continuous Spectra

  • Sample spectra
  • First Ark spectrum
  • Melvill
  • Wollasten
  • Kirchoff and Bunsen
  • Catalog of spectra

    The Bohr atom

  • Balmer's construction
  • Rydberg's announcement
  • Standing waves
  • Circular orbits
  • Atomic orbital distribution
  • Interpretation as orbits

    Complex atoms

  • Periodic table
  • Penetration of s orbitals
  • Electron configurations
  • More electron configurations

    Determinism

  • Laplacian Determinism
  • Spousal Uncertainty