What is spectroscopy? - correct answer Study of the interaction of electromagnetic
radiation with matter
What are three types of radiation-matter interaction? - correct answer Absorption,
Emission, Diffraction
What are the two types of matter - correct answer Molecular and Atomic
The method used for spectroscopy depends on what three things? - correct answer
Type of matter
Type of radiation matter interaction
Region of light (UV, visible, etc)
What is a spectrometer? - correct answer Used to measure a spectrum such as optical,
mass, magnetic, etc.
What is a spectra? - correct answer Optical spectra: graphs intensity vs wavelength or
frequency
Emission, transmission, absorption, reflection
Spectroscopy is the science of measuring the emission or absorption of different _____
- correct answer wavelegnths
Types of Spectroscopy - correct answer UV/VIS, Atomic Absorption, Flame Emission,
Mass Spectrometry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Fluroescence, Infra Red
What kind of properties does light (electromagnetic radiation) have? - correct answer
Wave- Like Properties and particulate properties
Wavelength - correct answer Upside down Y
Distance between successive maxima on any given wave
Frequency - correct answer v : in general, the # of occurrences of a repeated event per
time unit
Amplitude - correct answer Magnitude of the electric vector at the wave maxima
Light is made of a steam of what - correct answer particles (called photos)