What is Standing or stationary waves?
When two harmonic waves of equal frequency and amplitude travelling through a medium (say string) in opposite directions superimpose each... View Article
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Explain what is Plane progressive harmonic wave?
During the propagation of a wave through a medium, if the particles of the medium vibrate simple harmonically about their... View Article
Explain what is Progressive Wave?
A wave that travels from one point of the medium to another, is called a progressive wave. It can be... View Article
Explain the Wave Parameters in details
Phase Phase defines the position (in terms of distance from mean position) and velocity of a particle oscillating under the... View Article
Explain what is Longitudinal Waves?
It is a kind of wave motion in which the individual particles of a medium execute periodic motion about their... View Article
Explain what is Transverse Waves?
As the pulse in figure travels, each disturbed element of the string moves in a direction perpendicular to the direction... View Article
Give the reasons and differences between the Thomson’s model of atom and the present model of atom.
In the eighteenth centuries of Thomson very little is known about atom. Thomson was the first to prove that the... View Article
What will be the result of Rutherford’s gold foil experiment, if Thomson’s model of atom was true?
Rutherford model was based on the number and reflecting angle of the alpha particle (helium ion). The reflecting is because... View Article
What are the Objections to the Thomson model of an atom?
Objections to Thomson model of an atom: i) It is only a proposal without any valid experimental observation. ii) Cathode... View Article
What are the Postulates of Thomson of atom?
Thomson postulated that atom is: i) A spherical ball like substance with an average radius of about 10-10 ii) The... View Article
Explain the Thomson’s Atomic Model
Answer: Thomson atomic model was proposed by William Thomson in the year 1900. This model explained the description of an... View Article
What was Thomson’s conclusion from cathode ray tube experiments?
Thomson passed a very high electric charge in a vacuum tube containing different gases. He observed a flow of identical... View Article
What is the relation between relative permeability and magnetic susceptibility?
Relation between relative permeability and magnetic susceptibility. B = B1 + BH = μ0I + μ0H B = μ0 (I... View Article
Explain the graph of susceptibility versus temperature
The paramagnetic materials will be in its magnetic state after a fixed temperature this particular temperature is called Curie temperature.... View Article
Write some Examples of Magnetic Susceptibility?
Magnetic material can be classified as paramagnetic diamagnetic and ferromagnetic substances on the basis of their magnetic susceptibility. Diamagnetic materials-... View Article
What is the Formula of Magnetic Susceptibility?
Formula: Xm=I/H It is the ratio of two quantities with the same units, so magnetic susceptibility has no unit. The... View Article
What do you mean by Magnetic Susceptibility?
Magnetic susceptibility gives the measure of a quality with which a material can be magnetized by magnetizing field. It is... View Article
What is the frequency of the emitted radiation, in Rydberg’s units, when electron in a hydrogen atom jumps from third to the first orbit?
Frequency of the emitted radiation \(\begin{array}{l}=v=Rtimes {{Z}^{2}}left{ frac{1}{n{{1}^{2}}}-frac{1}{n{{2}^{2}}} right}Hz\end{array} \) \(\begin{array}{l}=Rtimes {{1}^{2}}left{ frac{1}{{{1}^{2}}}-frac{1}{{{3}^{2}}} right}frac{8}{9}R\end{array} \)
Why can’t helium ion combine with electrons of gold atom in the God foil experiment?
It is a possibility that helium ion combine with electrons of gold atom to produce He+ and neutral gold atoms.... View Article
How does Rutherford model link Thomson and Bohr model of atom?
Rutherford accepted Thomson’s model, of spherically shaped atom. But the concept of embedded electrons on a positively charged sphere was... View Article
