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So the original problem was that a stationary hydrogen atom changed states from excited to lower state and emitted a photon, i solved for the energy of the photon hf taking into account the kinetic energy of the recoiling atom since the photon released and the atom recoiling have equal and opposite momenta.
I came up with the formula, sorry i tried latexing everything but it wouldn't work for me:
DeltaE=-pc+(p^2)/2m, both momentum p's are the atoms. The problem says I need to taylor expand this formula for small deltaE and keep the first two terms. I don't know how to taylor expand something random like this, a physics formula.
Or it means taylor expand DeltaE=hf, but I am pretty sure its the first one... please help!
So the original problem was that a stationary hydrogen atom changed states from excited to lower state and emitted a photon, i solved for the energy of the photon hf taking into account the kinetic energy of the recoiling atom since the photon released and the atom recoiling have equal and opposite momenta.
I came up with the formula, sorry i tried latexing everything but it wouldn't work for me:
DeltaE=-pc+(p^2)/2m, both momentum p's are the atoms. The problem says I need to taylor expand this formula for small deltaE and keep the first two terms. I don't know how to taylor expand something random like this, a physics formula.
Or it means taylor expand DeltaE=hf, but I am pretty sure its the first one... please help!
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