Review Questions for Lecture 9


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  • Review Terms

    Photoelectric Effect
    Thermal Radiation
    Planck Curve
    Line Spectra
    Continuum Spectra
    Spectra
    Spectrum
    Flux
    Intensity
    Temperature
    Doppler Effect
    Wien's Law
    Stephan's Law
    Planck's Constant
    Stephan Boltzmann Constant
    Spectral Lines

    Review Concepts

    What is the photoelectric effect? Why is it important?

    What is thermal radiation? Why is it called thermal radiation?

    What is the Planck curve? What is Planck's constant?

    What is Wien's law? What is Stephan's law? When do they apply? What do they predict?

    What is the Doppler effect? How does the motion of the observer and the force change the frequency of light? the wavelength?

    What are the differences between continuous and line radiation?