Word: electron
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According to quantum theory, an electron in an atom can exist at any one of several discrete energy levels. When an electron falls from a higher level to a lower one, the atom gives off radiation at a specific frequency--for example, a microwave or a light wave...
When radiation of the frequency to be amplified strikes one of the excited atoms, the electron falls from the third to the second level, emitting new radiation. The electron later spontaneously returns to the first level to be pumped again to the top level...
...supplied one-quarter of the budget of the University as a whole (and) 55 per cent in the School of Public Health, 57 per cent in the Medical School, and 30 per cent in Arts and Sciences (of which almost half, however, went to the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, operated jointly with M.I.T...
...Electron Beams and Jazz...
...agenda for future lectures are a Boston publisher, an electron beam researcher, a state department official, a jazz musician, and a local businessman. Dean Monro and Byron Stookey, Jr. '54, associate director of Advanced Standing, have also agreed to speak...