Follow-Up Questions: Be complete in your answers. For mathematical problems show your work with units and report answers
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Follow-Up Questions: Be complete in your answers. For mathematical problems show your work with units and report answers
Questions: Be complete in your answers. For mathematical problems show your work with units and report answers to the correct number of significant figures. Based on your results, what is nfinal for all of the emission lines of the hydrogen atom that you observed? 1. Based on the experimental results, what is nfinal for all of the emission lines of the hydrogen atom that you were able to visually observe? 1.1. Why are we unable to visually observe the emission lines resulting from either the ninitial=2 to the nfinal=1 or the ninitial=4 to the nfinal=3 transitions for hydrogen? (Think logically and consider the energy spacings on your graph. What region of the electromagnetic spectrum do these transitions correspond to?) 2. Consider a hydrogen atom with its electron in the n = 5 excited state. Which transition from this state will yield the lowest frequency of emitted electromagnetic radiation? Clearly explain your reasoning. 3. When the electron in a hydrogen atom is moved from the ground state (n=1) to the n=∞ state we say that the atom has been ionized. 3.1. Using your textbook as a reference, define ionization energy. 3.2. How does ionization differ from excitation of an electron in an atom?
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