principles of matter

The volatile matter present in coal escapes on heating coal to a high temperature in the absence of oxyge..

It is a matter of common experience that bodies appear lighter when immersed in water or any other liqui..

The wave character of an electron and uncertainty in its position and momentum gave a serious blow to Bohr's model of an atom. According to Bohr, the electrons revolve around the nucleus in certain well-defined circular orbits. But the idea of uncertainty in position and velocity overruled the Bohr..

Probability Picture of Electrons and Concept of Atomic Orbital (Wave Mechanical Treatment) - The wave character of an electron and uncertainty in its position and momentum gave a serious blow to Bohr's model of an atom. According to Bohr, the electrons revolve around the nucleus in certain well-def..

Everything that we use in our daily life is ultimately governed by principles of physics. All gadgets we use everyday at home, bicycles and cars, all different types of machinery and instruments, work on principles of physics. Hence to understand even the elementary working of t..

Light is a form of energy produced by luminous objects. Light can travel through vacuum. Light can penetrate through transparent materials but cannot pass through opaque objects. Light travels in a straight line in an optically homogeneous medium. Light bounces back when made to fall ..

/c to photons of energy h u . The elastic scattering of a photon from an electron at rest can be worked out by using the principles of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. The discovery in 1905 of the dual nature of light was followed by the discovery of dual nature of ..

Electric charge is a basic property of all matter. Unlike charges attract, like charges repel. Conductor allow flow of electric charges through them while insulators don't. Electric charges have three basic properties (a) Additivity (b) Quantisation (c) Conservation Coulomb's law:..

This theory assumed that living organisms could arise suddenly and spontaneously from any kind of non-living matter. One of the firm believers in spontaneous generation was Aristotle, the Greek philosopher (384-322 BC). He believed that dead leaves falling from a tree into a pond would tr..