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    Photon Absorption: Atom, Transition Level, and Energy

    I was reading Leonard Susskind's "The Cosmic Landscape," and he was describing how spectral absorption lines are created. I wondered if there is an exact difference in energies between two electron orbitals, then isn't a photon of exactly that energy required to be absorbed by the electron to...
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