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Chapter 42, Problem 42.42P

(a)

To determine

The energy and wavelength of photon emitted by a CO molecule in an l=1l=0 rotational transition.

(b)

To determine

The reason why the astronomers can detect radiation from CO molecular clouds even though the typical temperature of a molecular cloud is a very low 20 K .

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