Recent content by Davnewil

By the way, where do you go to school or have a teaching position?

So, basically everything i was talking about just now is completely wrong? well i knew that was a possibility. That's why i was asking. I'm going to talk to the Physics teacher at my high school, but I'm in tenth grade right now, so my resourses are slightly limited in terms of taking a...

Like i said, lots of questions. :)

This raises another question though. If the photons all just "oscilate" through the electrons, being emitted in the same direction, why does most matter appear opaque? For example in glass, this explanation makes sense. The photons are absorbed by the electrons, oscilate through in the...

Sorry, i guess i have a lot of questions. I really havn't had any physics courses, so there are probably some major holes in my reasoning. I guess my most important question is: what controls the electron's electromagnetic field? Does it have to do with the spin-orbit interaction...

Also is the energy of an electron a constant? For example the electron does not make the element, and electrons are exchanged and shared by different atoms all the time in chemical bonding. However if they are constant, why are some electrons placed in higher energy levels and some in lower...

Free electrons can emit/absorb photons see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung Wait, do you mean that only free electrons absorb/emit photons, and not bound electrons?

There is an equation on the site you gave me on discrete spectra that shows the energy for an electron in orbit around a nucleus. The equation has me a little confused. It's under quantized energy states. I think it is basically describing how the energy of an electron is determined by the...

Hi, my name is David. I'm a High School student in Virginia. I'm doing a research project that concerns controling the frequency and wavelength or energy of a photon that is "absorbed" and emitted by an electron. Here are some assumptions and questions I am working on. Any help would be...