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chemistry in art test
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Chemistry
Undergraduate 1
03/02/2014

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Ptolemy
Definition
  • consistent with Aristole and observation
  • first person to describe planets and stars
  • 200 CE
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Definition
  • developed the solar centric model
  • everything went around the sun 
  • 1473-1534
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Francis Bacon
Definition
  • no interest in mathermatics
  • one of the first to do induction
  • 1561-1626
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Rene Descartes
Definition
  • mathematician 
  • came up with the X and Y axis
  • used matheical tools and had a math state of mind
  • 1596-1650
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Tycho Brahe
Definition
  • collected data about planet without a telescope
  • 1546-1601
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Johannes Kepler
Definition
  • data to derive a mathematical formal for eplliptical orbits
  • 1571-1630
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Galileo Galilei
Definition
  • invented the telescope
  • discovered the moons of jupiter and phase of venus
  • 1564-1642
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Isaac Newton
Definition
  • invented calculus
  • discovered laws of classic physics
  • founded modern optics
  • 1642-1726
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Antoine- Laurent de Laoisier
Definition
  • weathly nobleman
  • beheaded during french revolutoin 
  • founded modern chemistry 
  • first person to understand chemical reactions
  • 1743-1794
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J. Willard Gibbs
Definition
  • first american scientist 
  • developed chemical thermodynamics
  • 1839-1903
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Albert Einstein
Definition
  • created theory of relativity 
  • 1879-1955
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Gilbert Lewis

 

Definition
  • lewis dot structure
  • developed theory of chemical bond
  • 1875-1955
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Linus Pauling
Definition
  • created modern language for describing chemical bonds
  • 1901-1994
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Richard Feynman
Definition
  • funny
  • wrote a book
  • explained quantum mechanics to masses
  • help solve challenger space shuttle diaster 
  • 1918-1988
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Carolyn Porco
Definition
  • american astromner 
  • leader of cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn
  • discovered water on saturns moon
  • 1953- 
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Scientific Theory
Definition
  1. develop a hypothesis 
  2. elaborate the consquences of that hypothesis
  3. test the hypotesis against an experiment
  4. by induction hypothesis can be considered a law
Term
Wavelength
Definition
distance from peak to peak
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Frequency
Definition
number of waves per unit time
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Energy
Definition
ability to do work or the ability to create heat
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Photon
Definition
particles of light
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Wave Packet
Definition
short burst or envelope of localize wave action that travels as a unit
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Nanometer
Definition
One billionth of a meter
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Wavelength Range
Definition
400nm to 750nm
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Normal
Definition
line perpendicular to the surface
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Index of Refraction ( n )
Definition
(speed of light in a vaccum) divided by (speed of light in a medium)
Term
Dispersion
Definition
when n veries with wavelength
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Rayleigh Scattering
Definition
  • scattering from big stuff
  • scattered by dust particles
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Tyndall Scattering

 

Definition

Scatters shorter wavelengths (blue)

scattered by air molecules

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Blackbody Radiation
Definition
emits light depending only on temperature
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Isotope
Definition
depends only on the number of neutrons
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mass number
Definition
total number of protons and neutrons
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atomic number
Definition
number of protons
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Anion
Definition
negatively charged ion
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Cation
Definition
postively charged ion
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Spectrometer
Definition

measures light going through a substance

 

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