A Brief History

5/14/99


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A Brief History

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Scientists hypothesized that the discrete energy emitted from an atom resulted from electrons falling from a higher energy level to a lower energy level, and that the frequencies of light emitted correlated with the energy released, as related in Planck’s equation:

BALMER’S EQUATION

ENLIGHTENING WORK

SOME BACKGROUND

LIGHT AS A WAVE

More On Waves

But I thought light was a particle ?

DeBroglie Sees the Light

My baseball is a wave?

Some Clarification

Conclusion and Resources

Author: Marty Pentz