Author Question: Davisson and Germer used a nickel crystal for their scattering experiments that had been modified ... (Read 61 times)

tatyanajohnson · **on:** Jul 28, 2018

Davisson and Germer used a nickel crystal for their scattering experiments that had been modified when they tried to repair it. Which of the following describes the major change from before they tried to repair it and afterward that allowed them to work on the groundbreaking experiments they did?
A. The oxidation of the nickel from immediately after it was taken from a vacuum environment introduced impurities with intermediate band gaps.
B. The heating processes created larger crystals, which allowed them to clearly see the electron diffraction.
C. Under the intense heat of their repair process, the electrons were scattered off of energetically oscillating nickel atoms, whereas before they hit the stationary lattice atoms.
D. Their knowledge of the new nickel crystals led them to believe that electrons with low energy (on the order of 10 eV) only would scatter off of the closely spaced nickel atoms.

Question 2

When de Broglie's matter waves are applied to electrons in the Bohr atom, which of the following occurs?

cpetit11 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B.
The larger crystals that formed were more orderly than the fewer small crystals previously in the nickel structure. This allowed Davisson and Germer to clearly see the electron scattering patterns inherent to the large crystals.

Answer to Question 2

C,
The de Broglie wavelength of the electron orbiting the nucleus is quantized in the same way that Bohr's atom is quantized. An integral number of electron wavelengths is found in each electron orbit.