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Thanks for your help... I found this forum very unfriendly. :frown: It is very different from other forums where ppl have great discussions and help each other out. If I could solve the problem, I wouldn't have asked the question, right? Just because it is in the book doesn't mean that...

In the stern-Gerlach experiment, how much would a hydrogen atom emanating from a 500 k oven (KE = 1.5kT) be deflected in traveling one meter throught a magnetic field whose rate of change is 10T/m? what is stern-gerlach?

I found in a text that had this question. why should F, n row 2, be more reactive than iodine, in row 5, while Li, in row 2, is less reactive than Rb, in row 5? BUT this does not agree with this text http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/reactivity/reactivity.htm as it is more...

why is the expectation value of the position of a harmonic oscillator in its ground state zero? and what does it mean that it is in ground state? is ground state equal to n=0 or n=1?