?A student in a physics laboratory observes a hydrogen spectrum with a diffraction

Chapter 8, Problem 101

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A student in a physics laboratory observes a hydrogen spectrum with a diffraction grating for the purpose of measuring the wavelengths of the emitted radiation. In the spectrum, she observes a yellow line and finds its wavelength to be 589 nm. (a) Assuming that this is part of the Balmer series, determine \(n_{i}\) the principal quantum number of the initial state. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or Inconsistent?

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