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We know, from [[Physics307L F09:People/Ritter/Neon|Ritter from fall of '09]], that the accepted values of for the two first peaks are given at 16.7eV and 18.65eV, while the ionization energy is 21.56 eV. To find our ionization energies, we found the places in our data, where the current jumped as a result of some given voltage. This voltage is also the energy, in eV that an incident electron would have when striking the neon atom, and the jump in current is the result of the release of energy. Careful combing of the data reveals that we detected two peaks. On the 2.1 V run, these occurred at 16.51 V, and at 19.2V. In the 1.8 V run, the peaks where at 16.49 V, and at 19.71. | |||
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NeonThis week we are doing the excitation and ionization levels of Neon. The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the energy quantization of atoms. To do this, we bombarded neon atoms with electrons generated by a power supply. By varying the potential of the electrons bombarding the neon, we were able to measure the current across the neon and plot the two sets of data against each other. From these plots we were able to determine the ionization points for neon. Equipment and Set Up   This is all of the equipment that we used in the experiment:
We connected them with wires in the following way:
These wires were connected based on this illustrations, which is a sharper reproduction of the image in Gold's manual:
This was taken from Tomas Mondragon's notebook. However, please note that F5 is mislabeled, and should read F3. ProcedureInitially, we set the voltage on the Soar Power Supply to 2.1 V, and the voltage on the Kepco Power Supply to zero. We measured the voltage from the multimeter, and the current from the picoamplifier. When we had set the voltage to zero, we adjusted the picoamplifier, by using the knob on the upper right of the base, to zero. We then steadily increased the voltage in 1V steps up to 25V, and measured the current. At one point, we had to readjust the scale on the picoamplifier by switching the power from -12 to -11, and changing the given value so that the two scales matched. Initially, we had the polarity reversed from where we were supposed to have it. This should have been the final step, used to illustrate the importance of setting up the equipment properly, but we did manage to learn our lesson well. The current as a function of the voltage for the reversed polarity:
The graph on the left is for the course sweep of through the various voltages, and as you can see, there are two sharp peaks that developed between 15 and 22 V. When we did the fine sweep for data, we focused in on this area producing the more detailed plot on the right. To get a second set of data, we then dropped the potential on the Soar Power Supply to 1.8 V, and repeated the data collection, this produced the following plots:
Again, the course graph is given on the left, and the more detailed graph is on the right. Once again, we were able to produce peaks in the range between 15 and 22V, which gave us our range for the second data collection. The primary difference, however, is that the peaks in these two plots are not as sharp as in the initial sweep at a higher voltage. The reason for this is explained below in the calculations section. Here is all of our raw data summarized on a single spreadsheet {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |
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}} Calculations and ResultsWe know, from Ritter from fall of '09, that the accepted values of for the two first peaks are given at 16.7eV and 18.65eV, while the ionization energy is 21.56 eV. To find our ionization energies, we found the places in our data, where the current jumped as a result of some given voltage. This voltage is also the energy, in eV that an incident electron would have when striking the neon atom, and the jump in current is the result of the release of energy. Careful combing of the data reveals that we detected two peaks. On the 2.1 V run, these occurred at 16.51 V, and at 19.2V. In the 1.8 V run, the peaks where at 16.49 V, and at 19.71. ConclusionsAcknowledgments and ResourcesAgain, I want to thank my lab partner for this experiment, Kirstin. For this experiment, we used these following resources:
Alex and Joseph were both very helpful as they had just done this experiment before we did, and answered all of our questions, and save us a ton of time by pointing our Tomas' diagram from above. Also, Dr. Koch and Katie the T.A. both helped us out a lot. | |
