Contents --- Electromagnetic Radiation

• Introduction
• Electric and Magnetic Fields
• Properties of Light Wavelength, frequency, spectrum, temperature, and Kelvin temperature scale defined.
  • Review Questions
• Production of Light
  • Continuous Spectrum
  • Discrete Spectrum Emission lines and absorption lines
  • Review Questions
• Bohr atom
• How Atoms Produce the Spectra Includes some nice pictures.
  • Universality of Physical Laws in Space and Time
  • Review Questions
• Doppler Effect
  • Review Questions

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