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What is another metaphor (aside from the fact that a piano can only produce certain notes) that could help someone understand energy quantization at the atomic level? Explain your answer.

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Because protons and electrons in an atom carry opposite charges, they are attracted to each other and thus maintain the boundaries of the atom as a singular closed system. This means that an atom’s energy is quantized, or fixed to a certain amount. Just like a piano can only produce a certain set of notes that correspond to its keys, an atom of a certain element can only contain a certain fixed amount of energy.

Answer 1

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Another metaphor that can help explain energy quantization at the atomic level is the number of teams at different stages in the Football World Cup tournament taking each stage as a given amount of energy gained by the teams at that stage as follows;

Stage 1 Group Stage

The number of teams in the group stage = 32, Energy per team = 1

Knock out stages

Round of 16

The number of teams in the round of 16 stage = 16,  Energy per team = 2

Semi final

The number of teams in the semi final stage =  8, Energy per team = 4

Quarter final

The number of teams in the quarter final stage = 4, Energy per team = 8

Final

The number of teams in the semi final stage = 2,  Energy per team = 16

The winning team

The number of teams that win the World Cup = 1,  Energy of the team = 32

As seen as each team has a specific energy level at each stage of the world cup and there can not any energy value that is an intermediate value of the energy of the teams each at each stage, so also at the atomic level particles within the atom and therefore the atom itself can possess only specific quantum of energy values in a given level or state.

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Answer 2

When anything is quantized, it means making things that cannot be counted or measured measurable or countable. In other word, turning continuous readings into a discrete values

The idea of energy quantization came to lime light by Neils Bohr.

When something is quantized, it means making things that cannot be counted or measured measurable or countable. In other word, turning continuous readings into a discrete values ( countable or measurable value)

The Bohr model suggested that the energy of an electron in an atom cannot vary continuously but is restricted to a limited number of discrete values.

Energy quantization at the atomic level denote that energy of the electron can have only discrete values.

This postulation postulated that the electrons in an atom cannot lose energy continuously but must do so in quantum jumps. This can be well understood when we imagine electron moving (jumping) from one orbit to another orbit. This is known as excitation.

For instance, light is emitted only when an electron jumps from one stationary state to another of lower energy. When the electrons return back to their initial orbit, they do so by emitting photons in the form of light energy.

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