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Discrete matter
Around the late 19th, early 20th century, Physics was suddenly shocked by several new and very revolutionary theories. Were as in the early 19th century, people thought that the science of physics had actually been completed, the early 20th century was a time of great chance and great possibilities. There were mysteries once again.
One of these revolutionary new thoughts was that matter and energy might actually exist only in little packages and in certain step, instead of having infinitely many ways of existing.
The Bohr Quantum Condition, for example, says that L, the circular momentum of an electron in atom around the nucleus of the same atom, can only have certain steps of h, the constant of Planck.
Namely:
L=nh/2π
In which n is a natural number (1, 2 ,3 …etc), h is the Planck Constant
For more information on the Bohr Quantum Condition, or other subjects concerning Quantum Mechanics, we advise you to enroll yourself into a University course concerning early Quantum Mechanics. |