Week4 Draft3

Predicting the energy level of an electron when activated by a photon is possible using the conservation of energy. If the energy before is equal to the energy after the interaction with the photon, then the respective energies become as follows: Ei+Ephoton=Ef. To calculate which energy levels are involved in this interaction, the information would need to be provided. The size of the boundry to which the electron is bound must be provided since the other factors are constants. The equation for the energy of an electron at an energy level n, is therefore En=(h^2)(n^2)/8mL^2, where h is planks constant of 6.626X10^-34J*s, n is the energy level, m is the mass of an electron (9.11X10^-31), and L is the provided length. Solving for the initial energy, then the energy of the photon will provide the final energy of the electron after interaction with the photon. To find the energy of the photon, the wavelength of the photon may be provided since the energy is E=hc/wavelength.