This is for a physical chemistry class. Please show all work and will rate. 6. I

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This is for a physical chemistry class. Please show all work and will rate.
6. Imagine you have a time machine TARDIS, Delorean, or otherwise) and you go back in time to 1930s Germany. You encounter a follower of "Deutsche Physik" (lit. "German physics," which suppressed contributions to science that were made by Jewish physicists, such as Bohr and Einstein). Convince this person that classical mechanics is insufficient, and quantum mechanics is necessary, to properly describe the natural world. Use at least three experimental results to back up your argument. Assume your audience can follow a scientific argument, but needs you to define your scientific jargon. Type your response (vou may email it to me at

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Classical mechanics canexplain the behaviour of macroscopic bodies but if fails to explain the behaviour of microscopic bodies like atoms electrons protons etc. As per Hisenbergs uncetainty principle it is not possible to determine similtaneouslt the exact position and momentum of electrons. As a result their behaviour (e.g trajectory) can not be known with accuracy. But such a proble does not exist with macroscopic bodies. There are several experimental observations which can not be explained by classical mechanics. Thre such experiments are given below:

(1) Specific heat of solids

(II) Black body radiation

(III) Photoelectric effect.

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