Chapter 30: Q11PE (page 1112)
If a hydrogen atom has its electron in the n = 4 state, how much energy in eV is needed to ionize it?
Short Answer
The energy needed to ionize hydrogen atom is 0.85 eV.
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Chapter 30: Q11PE (page 1112)
If a hydrogen atom has its electron in the n = 4 state, how much energy in eV is needed to ionize it?
The energy needed to ionize hydrogen atom is 0.85 eV.
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Which of the following spectroscopic notations are allowed (that is, which violate none of the rules regarding values of quantum numbers)?
(a) \[{\bf{1}}{{\bf{s}}^{\bf{1}}}\](b) \[{\bf{1}}{{\bf{d}}^{\bf{3}}}\] (c)\[{\bf{4}}{{\bf{s}}^{\bf{2}}}\](d)\[{\bf{3}}{{\bf{p}}^{\bf{7}}}\] (e)\[{\bf{6}}{{\bf{h}}^{{\bf{20}}}}\]
(a) What is the distance between the slits of a diffraction grating that produces a first-order maximum for the first Balmer line at an angle of 20.0o?
(b) At what angle will the fourth line of the Balmer series appear in first order?
(c) At what angle will the second-order maximum be for the first line?
Show that\[\left( {{\bf{13}}{\bf{.6 eV}}} \right){\bf{/hc = 1}}{\bf{.097 \times 1}}{{\bf{0}}^{\bf{7}}}{\bf{ m}}\]=R (Rydberg’s constant), as discussed in the text
Observers at a safe distance from an atmospheric test of a nuclear bomb feel its heat but receive none of its copious x rays. Why is air opaque to x rays but transparent to infrared?
Ruby lasers have chromium atoms doped in an aluminum oxide crystal. The energy level diagram for chromium in a ruby is shown in Figure 30.64. What wavelength is emitted by a ruby laser?

Figure 30.64 Chromium atoms in an aluminum oxide crystal have these energy levels, one of which is metastable. This is the basis of a ruby laser. Visible light can pump the atom into an excited state above the metastable state to achieve a population inversion.
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