Excite Atom button should send a random photon that is absorbable when the atom is in state (2,0,0).

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"Models of the Hydrogen Atom" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Excite Atom button should send a random photon that is absorbable when the atom is in state (2,0,0). #55

Open DianaTavares opened 3 months ago

DianaTavares commented 3 months ago

Excite Atom appears when stuck in the metastable 2S state. (Excite to n >2 in Schrödinger, will sometimes decay down to 2S state.)

We decided in today's design meeting that:

[ ] Excite Atom button should send a random visible photon (of the 4 possible transitions)
[x] n=2 → n >2 buttons in dialog should always be enabled, even if they are unlikely to do anything most of the time

pixelzoom commented 3 months ago

Also...

[x] The "Excite Atom" button should be visible only when the atom is in the metastable state (n, l, m ) = (2, 0, 0).

pixelzoom commented 3 months ago

Looking at the Java version... It always emits 656 nm (red). But it then selects one of the 4 transitions from n = 2. So that's incorrect and potentially confusing. In the HTML5 version, I'll make sure that the corresponding transition is used for the wavelength that is randomly selected.

pixelzoom commented 3 months ago

This has been implemented, but it's difficult to review, since the Schrodinger view has not been implemented yet. So I'll leave this issue open and circle back later.