Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Day Two: Activity 2

Describe the behaviors of electrons.
Electrons are made up of particles and waves and they collide with other particles and are diffracted like light.
Electrons can dwell at various energy levels within an atom. When electrons move from one energy level to another, they either absorb or emit a photon. Electrons in different atoms have different energies associated with their energy level transitions.  Electrons are often torn loose from their parent atoms. Such "free electron" can be accelerated, because of the electron's charge, to very high speeds and energies by electrical and magnetic fields
http://www.windows2universe.org/physical_science/physics/atom_particle/electron.html
Implications/Applications?

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