PHYS 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Absorption Spectroscopy, Matter Wave, Qantas
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Based on the idea of a quantum" emergy. A quantum of energy: energy can"t have any value it wants to have/ it comes in chunks (integer numbers) Quantum physics: energy has to come in that matter. If you tried to divide energy into smaller pieces forever you would reach a limit where you couldn"t diide it anymore because you would reach the limit of what the energy could be. It applies to the opposite regime of special relativity. It applies to high energy atomic physics: physics of the very small. If you disperse light through a prism you see all the wavelengths of white light. If you do this at high resolution you notice black lines within the spectrum. Core of the sun that is producing energy. Encounters a cloud of gas which is surface of sun. it absorbs light from the spectrum and causes absorption lines.
