Vocab

[Emily Ng_4C]

What does it mean for something to be quantized?

[JT Wechsler 2B]

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

[charlotte_jacobs_4I]

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]

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]

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]

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