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Chapter 4, Problem 13Q
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The method how the hydrogen atom might absorb a photon of energy less than 13.6 eV and also explain a process by which a 9.8 eV photon might be absorbed and a 15.2 eV photon.
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A hydrogen atom initially in its ground state (n=1) absorbs a photon and ends up in the state for which n = 3.
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If it takes 10.2 eV of energy excite hydrogen from the ground state into the first excited (n = 2) state, then what frequency photon is required to excite hydrogen out of the ground state into n = 2 state? What is the wavelength (λ) of that photon? What kind of radiation (region of the electromagnetic spectrum) is this photon?
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