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This subatomic particle orbits the nucleus and carries a negative charge.
Difficulty: Easy- Electron
- Proton
- Neutron
- Photon
This phenomenon explains why electrons are ejected from metals when light of sufficient frequency shines on them.
Difficulty: Medium- Compton scattering
- Photoelectric effect
- Thermionic emission
- Field emission
This approximation treats electrons as independent particles moving in an average potential from the nucleus and other electrons.
Difficulty: Hard- Central field approximation
- Born-Oppenheimer approximation
- Hartree-Fock approximation
- Sudden approximation
This positively charged particle resides in the atomic nucleus.
Difficulty: Easy- Electron
- Proton
- Neutron
- Quark
This quantum number specifies the orientation of an orbital in space and ranges from -l to +l.
Difficulty: Medium- Magnetic quantum number
- Spin quantum number
- Principal quantum number
- Angular momentum quantum number
This method combines multiple Slater determinants to account for electron correlation beyond Hartree-Fock.
Difficulty: Hard- Density functional theory
- Møller-Plesset perturbation
- Configuration interaction
- Coupled cluster method
This neutral particle shares the nucleus with protons.
Difficulty: Easy- Electron
- Positron
- Neutron
- Photon
This spectral series in hydrogen produces ultraviolet light from transitions to the ground state.
Difficulty: Medium- Balmer series
- Paschen series
- Brackett series
- Lyman series
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