quantization

Examples of quantization in the following topics:

• General Rules for Assigning Electrons to Atomic Orbitals

  • This separating of electrons into energy units is called quantization of energy because there are only certain quantities of energy that an electron can have in an atom.

• Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment

  • Aside from discerning an electron's charge, the beauty of the oil drop experiment lies in its simple and elegant demonstration that charge is actually quantized.

• Wave Equation for the Hydrogen Atom

  • This explains also why the choice of z-axis for the directional quantization of the angular momentum vector is immaterial: an orbital of given ℓ and m′ obtained for another preferred axis, z′,can always be represented as a suitable superposition of the various states of different mℓ (but same ℓ) that have been obtained for z.

• The Bohr Model

  • Quantization of the electromagnetic field was explained by the discreteness of the atomic energy levels.