## Vocab

$c=\lambda v$

Emily Ng_4C
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### Vocab

What does it mean for something to be quantized?

JT Wechsler 2B
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### Re: Vocab

Something that is quantized can only have discrete values or quantities of something. In our case, that would be energy.

charlotte_jacobs_4I
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### Re: Vocab

When you say "discrete values" does that mean it can only have one value at a time or just a small range of values?

Sophia Ding 1B
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### Re: Vocab

I think what JT means by discrete values are values that are of existence; it can't be something like infinity or an imaginary number like i, but rather a number that we can quantify in numerical values.

Elisa Bass 4L
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### Re: Vocab

Additionally, in the case of the energy levels of electrons being quantized, it means that they have to have the energy at a distinct level, ie. n=1 or n=2, and cannot have levels of energy between those distinct levels.

Zubair Ahmed 1L
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### Re: Vocab

In our case, the thing being quantized is energy. When energy is quantized, energy is packaged into small discrete packets of energy called quanta.