User:IanS22222/Evaluate an Article

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Atomic Electron Transition

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This article relates to the field of study covered by my class. It is essential knowledge as the atomic transitions affect a wide range of processes and provide the basis for information about a material's structure. From a first glance, the article is quite short but appears to have a substantial amount of reference material.

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This article appears to have a sufficient introductory explanation that details relevant information, but the other sections need improvement.


 * The history section is lacking and has awkwardly changing levels of information on the timeline of events (the Frank-Hertz experiment is not given a date, which would be 1914).
 * The experiments seen in the history section are lacking in descriptions beyond the discovery itself. Adding in more of the basic parameters of the experiment (i.e. for the Frank-Hertz experiment: involved the bombardment of a gas with electrons at varying energy; They could determine the existence of energy for atomic transitions by the inability of the electrons to pass through at a certain energy level)
 * Following the 2019 experiment in Recent Discoveries, there is a small line about how quantum jumps are unpredictable. This line provides no info about the experiment or process that determined this (at least as indicated by the source provided [8]) nor when it was published, which is important to noting how it is a recent discovery. As it stands, there is too much of a disparity in information provided between this and the 2019 experiment, which contributes to a clear inequality of focus.
 * Upon testing out links, the first reference led to a page on the University of Oregon Physics. The choice of reference to a lecture page from a professor seems questionable as it does not provide its own sources for the information provided and a peer-reviewed status is unknown for this case, even if the information is elementary.
 * Reference 5 refers to a New York Times article, which is a very unreliable/lacking source as a newspaper and should be replaced with one from an academic resource.
 * Reference 6 links an Encyclopedia Britannica page, which seems insufficient for describing this experiment. Another reputable source on the experiment would be helpful.