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GreenAce92
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This is probably really sad that I am posting about this.
I am doing my Modern Lab on Spectroscopy of Hydrogen and Sodium.
I am confused on what exactly n is.
We used this apparatus which spun on a 360degree vernier scale, we were able to view the 4 wavelengths of Hydrogen twice and the doublets of Sodium also twice.
I do not completely understand what n is.
From my understanding which may be incorrect the different colors of light viewed are a result of different excitation states? going from one energy level to the next?
So on a diagram you see an increasing E and increasing n you see the eV increase.
But on a diffraction setting, n is the location of occurrences of maxima/minima right?
So... I'm not sure what exactly it means with the equation nλ=dsinθ
I mean, one order you can see the four visible light (red, blue, violet, violet) and then the next order you can see them again?
Yeah please enlighten me.
I am doing my Modern Lab on Spectroscopy of Hydrogen and Sodium.
I am confused on what exactly n is.
We used this apparatus which spun on a 360degree vernier scale, we were able to view the 4 wavelengths of Hydrogen twice and the doublets of Sodium also twice.
I do not completely understand what n is.
From my understanding which may be incorrect the different colors of light viewed are a result of different excitation states? going from one energy level to the next?
So on a diagram you see an increasing E and increasing n you see the eV increase.
But on a diffraction setting, n is the location of occurrences of maxima/minima right?
So... I'm not sure what exactly it means with the equation nλ=dsinθ
I mean, one order you can see the four visible light (red, blue, violet, violet) and then the next order you can see them again?
Yeah please enlighten me.