A $12.5\, eV$ electron beam is used to bombard gaseous hydrogen at room temperature. It will emit :
- 2 lines in the Lyman series and 1 line in the Balmar series
- 3 lines in the Lyman series
- 1 line in the Lyman series and 2 lines in the Balmar series
- 3 lines in the Balmer series
The Correct Option is A
Solution and Explanation
$=993 A?$
$\frac{1}{\lambda}= R \left(\frac{1}{n_{1}^{2}}-\frac{1}{n_{2^{2}}}\right)$
(where Rydberg constant ,R= 1.097 x $10^{7}$)
$or, \, \frac{1}{993\times10^{-10}}=1.097\times10^{7} \left(\frac{1}{1^{2}}-\frac{1}{n_{2^{2}}}\right)$
Solving we get $n_{2}$ = 3
Spectral lines Total number of spectral lines = 3
Two lines in Lyman series for $n_{1}=1, n_{2} =2$
and $n_{1}=1, n_{2} =3$ and one in Balmer series
for $n_{1} =2, n_{2} =3$
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Atoms
- The smallest unit of matter indivisible by chemical means is known as an atom.
- The fundamental building block of a chemical element.
- The smallest possible unit of an element that still has all the chemical properties of that element.
- An atom is consisting of a nucleus surrounded by one or more shells of electrons.
- Word origin: from the Greek word atomos, which means uncuttable, something that cannot be divided further.
All matter we encounter in everyday life consists of smallest units called atoms – the air we breath consists of a wildly careening crowd of little groups of atoms, my computer’s keyboard of a tangle of atom chains, the metal surface it rests on is a crystal lattice of atoms. All the variety of matter consists of less than hundred species of atoms (in other words: less than a hundred different chemical elements).
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