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What is longitudinal relaxation time and transverse relaxation time?
How do we define the longitudinal relaxation time and transverse relaxation time?
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why dosen't a charged particle radiate energy in circular motion in a uniform magnetic field?
I have studied in my Physics course that one of the drawbacks of Rutherford's atomic model was that when an electron will revolve around the nucleus, it is undergoing acceleration and so it should ...
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Bohr's model of an atom doesn't seem to have overcome the drawback of Rutherford's model
We, as high school students have been taught that-because Bohr's model of an atom assigns specific orbits for electrons-that it is better than Rutherford's model. But what Rutherford failed to explain ...
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Is the electron wave function defined during photon emission
I have heard the term quantum leap to describe the (instantaneous?) transition from a higher energy orbital to a lower energy orbital. Yet, I understand that this transition time has now been ...
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Peaks on top of Bremsstrahlung
The following is a graph of the intensity of Bremsstrahlung generated by accelerating electrons to hit a target vs. its wavelength.
I'm wondering what causes the additional peaks for high energies? ...