Principle of increasing electron

The principle of secondary electron emission eventually breaks down as the mass of the ion increases. As shown in Eq. (3.2), the velocity of an ion is an inverse function of its mass. Therefore, the detection efficiency decreases with an increase in the mass of the incoming beam. In particular, the detection of high-mass biomolecules with EMs poses a problem. A solution is to augment... 

Aufbau principle In building up the electronic configuration of an atom or a molecule in its ground state, the electrons are placed in the orbitals in order of increasing energy. 

MOs around them - rather as we construct atomic orbitals (AOs) around a single bare nucleus. Electrons are then fed into the MOs in pairs (with the electron spin quantum number = 5) in order of increasing energy using the aufbau principle, just as for atoms (Section 7.1.1), to give the ground configuration of the molecule. 

The most recent development in the starting of squirrel-cage induction motors is the introduction of the electronic soft-start. This principle has been derived from variable-frequency speed controllers using switched Thyristor or power transistor bridges. The supply sine wave is chopped so that a reduced voltage and frequency is applied to the motor.These are gradually increased so that the motor speed rises in a controlled manner, with the starting current limited to any chosen value. 

The thermodynamic and electrode-kinetic principles of cathodic protection have been discussed at some length in Section 10.1. It has been shown that, if electrons are supplied to the metal/electrolyte solution interface, the rate of the cathodic reaction is increased whilst the rate of the anodic reaction is decreased. Thus, corrosion is reduced. Concomitantly, the electrode potential of the metal becomes more negative. Corrosion may be prevented entirely if the rate of electron supply is such that the potential of the metal is lowered to the value where it is found that anodic dissolution does not occur. This may not necessarily be the potential at which dissolution is thermodynamically impossible. 

The negative voltage shows that the state of equilibrium favors the reactants more than the products for the reaction as written. For standard conditions, the reaction will not tend to occur spontaneously. However, if we place Ag(s) in 1 M H+, the Ag+ concentration is not 1 M— it is zero. By Le Chatelier s Principle, this increases the tendency to form products, in opposition to our prediction of no reaction. Some silver will dissolve, though only a minute amount because silver metal releases electrons so reluctantly compared with H2. It is such a small amount, in fact, that no silver chloride precipitate forms, even though silver chloride has a very low solubility. 

The ground-state electron configurations of diatomic molecules are deduced by forming molecular orbitals from all the valence-sbell atomic orbitals of the two atoms and adding the valence electrons to the molecular orbitals in order of increasing energy, in accord ivith the building-up principle. 

The operation principle of these TFTs is identical to that of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) [617,618]. When a positive voltage Vg Is applied to the gate, electrons are accumulated in the a-Si H. At small voltages these electrons will be localized in the deep states of the a-Si H. The conduction and valence bands at the SiN.v-a-Si H interface bend down, and the Fermi level shifts upward. Above a certain threshold voltage Vth a constant proportion of the electrons will be mobile, and the conductivity is increased linearly with Vg - Vih. As a result the transistor switches on. and a current flows from source to drain. The source-drain current /so can be expressed as [619]... 

If we increase the accuracy with which the position of the electron is determined by decreasing the wavelength of the light that is used to observe the electron, then the photon has a greater momentum, since p = hiA. The photon can then transfer a larger amount of momentum to the electron, and so the uncertainty in the momentum of the electron increases. Thus any reduction in the uncertainty in the position of the electron is accompanied by an increase in the uncertainty in the momentum of the electron, in accordance with the uncertainty principle relationship. We may summarize by saying that there is no way of accurately measuring simultaneously both the position and velocity of an electron the more closely we attempt to measure its position, the more we disturb its motion and the less accurately therefore we are able to define its velocity. 

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