Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
An electron jumps from fourth to first orbit in an atom. How many maximum number of spectral lines can be emitted by the atom? To which series these lines correspond?
Advertisements
Solution
When an electron passes from n = 4 energy level to n = 1 level, the number of maximum spectral lines emitted by the atom will be 6 because maximum number of photons emitted are 6, corresponding to 6 transitions. These lines will correspond to Balmer series.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
In the figure below, D and E respectively represent

Which of the following transition will have highest emission frequency?
The energy (in eV) required to excite an electron from n = 2 to n = 4 state in hydrogen atom is ____________.
If the mass of the electron is reduced to half, the Rydberg constant ______.
Each element is associated with a ______.
Deutrium was discovered in 1932 by Harold Urey by measuring the small change in wavelength for a particular transition in 1H and 2H. This is because, the wavelength of transition depend to a certain extent on the nuclear mass. If nuclear motion is taken into account then the electrons and nucleus revolve around their common centre of mass. Such a system is equivalent to a single particle with a reduced mass µ, revolving around the nucleus at a distance equal to the electron-nucleus separation. Here µ = meM/(me + M) where M is the nuclear mass and m e is the electronic mass. Estimate the percentage difference in wavelength for the 1st line of the Lyman series in 1H and 2H. (Mass of 1H nucleus is 1.6725 × 10–27 kg, Mass of 2H nucleus is 3.3374 × 10–27 kg, Mass of electron = 9.109 × 10–31 kg.)
Determine the shortest wavelengths of Balmer and Pasch en series. Given the limit for the Lyman series is 912 Å.
The first three spectral lines of H-atom in the Balmer series are given λ1, λ2, λ3 considering the Bohr atomic model, the wavelengths of the first and third spectral lines `(lambda_1/lambda_3)` are related by a factor of approximately 'x' × 10–1. The value of x, to the nearest integer, is ______.
The frequencies for series limit of Balmer and Paschen series respectively are 'v1' and 'v3'. If frequency of first line of Balmer series is 'v2' then the relation between 'v1', 'v2' and 'v3' is ______.
The de-Broglie wavelength of the electron in the hydrogen atom is proportional to ______.
