1st Quiz on Quantum Mechanics

Max Planck’s great discovery was that radiation energy is emitted in packets that he called what?

• Gamma rays

•  Quanta

• Photons

• Wave functions

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

In the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which two measurable properties of a particle cannot be observed precisely at the same time?

• Energy and torque

• Position and momentum

• Spin and color

• Size and speed

That radiation and matter have properties both of particles and of waves is called what?

• Entanglement

• Wave-particle duality

• Mixing

• Confusion

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

The square of a particle’s wave function describes the probability ______

• That it will disappear

• That it has a specific spin

• That it will decay

• That it is at a particular place

Schrodinger's equation described the

• procedure for splitting an atom

• complement of the wave function

• motion of light

• behavior of "matter" waves