Sentences with phrase «how electrons orbit»
These rules predict, for example, how electrons orbit a nucleus in an atom, and how an atom can absorb photons, particles of light.
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Sommerfeld showed how to extend quantum ideas from circular to elliptical electron orbits, making him kind of like a Kepler to Bohr's Copernicus.
They shoot atoms, each with a widely orbiting electron, through a photon stream, and then measure how much the photons knock the electrons out of phase.
A Los Alamos Fellows Prize recipient, Reeves recently helped solve a 50 - year - old space mystery about how electrons within Earth's Van Allen radiation belts can become energetic enough to kill orbiting satellites.