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Anyone Heard of This Pattern/Function Re the PTE?

Submitted by Anonymous on 19 October 2004 - 1:20am.

Hi,

I was recently studying the PTE, trying to get insight about PV cell design, when I 'discovered' a pattern in the number of elements per period. I was thinking about why there were 8, 18, 18, 32, & 32 elements per period.

I REALIZE that the function I found could have nothing to do with the way the atom works, but I've never heard of this relationship before, and was wondering if "we" already know it. Also, I realize that there could be other functions that would work. Finally, I don't know what use this might be, but maybe someone might, someday.

Basically, I found a function that calculates the number of elements in "the next period", based on just the number of elements "in the current period", using a function and a few constants. You can forget the "NOTZERO(p)" term if you don't consider period 0, which doesn't 'exist'.

Equation 1:
Ep+1 = Ep + (DeltaE0 + [(p+1)/2 * 4]) * ODD(p) * NOTZERO(p)

Where,
Ep+1 The number of elements in the

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Submitted by Anonymous on 19 October 2004 - 9:17am.

what's "PTE" and "PV" ...?

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Submitted by Anonymous on 19 October 2004 - 4:04pm.

Periodic Table of the Elements, and PhotoVoltic cells (sp?) [Solar panels]?

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Some Terms, as requested

Submitted by Anonymous on 19 October 2004 - 10:45pm.

PTE is the Periodic Table of the Elements.

PV is photovoltaic.

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Submitted by Anonymous on 20 October 2004 - 8:33am.

well,
the periodicity is best explained by quantum mechanics and the
descriptions it provides of atomic orbitals.

Facile number games aren't really anything to do with it.

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Submitted by Anonymous on 20 October 2004 - 2:47pm.

http://www.webelements.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1538

Compare your results with the scientific reason for the periods.

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Submitted by Anonymous on 21 October 2004 - 2:35pm.

Basically a period will have 2[round up to 1(p+1/2)]^2 elements. Roy Alexander defined that.

Therefore period 1 carries 2[Rndup(1+1)/2]^2=2[1]^2=2*1=2
P2: 2[Rndup(2+1)/2]^2=2[Rndup 1.5]^2=2*2^2=8

etc, etc.

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Deryck, Thanks, any links to Roy Alexander info?

Submitted by Anonymous on 9 November 2004 - 5:41am.

Hi Deryck,

Thanks for your reply.

I can only find a trivial amount of info on Roy Alexander. He appears to be a physics trained ASTROLOGER, if there is such a thing.

I'm not sure if you're razzing me, or if he did come up with this relationship.

Any links to info on him?

Thanks

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Submitted by Anonymous on 12 November 2004 - 4:23am.

I don't know info on him, but his theory can be seen here:
http://www.periodictable.com/

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