Consider a transition in which the electron of a hydrogenatom is excited from n = 1 to n = ∞. (a) What is the endresult of this transition? (b) What is the wavelength of lightthat must be absorbed to accomplish this process? (c) Whatwill occur if light with a shorter wavelength than that in part(b) is used to excite the hydrogen atom? (d) How are the resultsof parts (b) and (c) related to the plot shown in Exercise 6.88?

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Consider a transition in which the electron of a hydrogen
atom is excited from n = 1 to n = ∞. (a) What is the end
result of this transition? (b) What is the wavelength of light
that must be absorbed to accomplish this process? (c) What
will occur if light with a shorter wavelength than that in part
(b) is used to excite the hydrogen atom? (d) How are the results
of parts (b) and (c) related to the plot shown in Exercise 6.88?

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