Explanation behind Moseley's Law?

tade · Mar 31, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moseley's_law

I'm not quite sure why it's (Z-1) instead of just Z.

jtbell · Apr 1, 2013

That page attempts to explain the Z-1. What part of it are you having trouble with?

tade · Apr 3, 2013

wiki states it is "predominantly a consequence of the difference of the value of the electron-electron repulsion in the initial and final states of the atom that undergoes the x-ray transition"

but I'm not sure how we can derive the values of 1 and 7.6

tade · Apr 5, 2013

so initially Moseley thought it was due to screening

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