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    White light passing through a spectroscope separates into a spectrum of colors due to electrons within atoms being able to undergo energy transitions of all sizes when absorbing or emitting energy. However, when electrons move between discrete energy levels within an atom, only a few fixed energy transitions are allowed, resulting in an emission spectrum showing a few distinct emission lines representing the different allowed energy jumps for that atom. In particular, the hydrogen atom has many energy levels for its single electron, but only permits certain fixed transition energies between levels, producing a unique spectral signature.

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    White light passing through a spectroscope separates into a spectrum of colors due to electrons within atoms being able to undergo energy transitions of all sizes when absorbing or emitting energy. However, when electrons move between discrete energy levels within an atom, only a few fixed energy transitions are allowed, resulting in an emission spectrum showing a few distinct emission lines representing the different allowed energy jumps for that atom. In particular, the hydrogen atom has many energy levels for its single electron, but only permits certain fixed transition energies between levels, producing a unique spectral signature.

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    White light passing through a spectroscope separates into a spectrum of colors due to electrons within atoms being able to undergo energy transitions of all sizes when absorbing or emitting energy. However, when electrons move between discrete energy levels within an atom, only a few fixed energy transitions are allowed, resulting in an emission spectrum showing a few distinct emission lines representing the different allowed energy jumps for that atom. In particular, the hydrogen atom has many energy levels for its single electron, but only permits certain fixed transition energies between levels, producing a unique spectral signature.

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    • White light as seen through a spectroscope

    All sizes of (gravitational) energy


    transitions possible
    • Just like a child on a slide
    All sizes of electronic energy
    transitions possible
    • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/images/inout
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    • When an electron escapes from its parent atom,
    all sizes of energy transitions are possible
    To infinity and beyond!
    Line emission spectra
    Only a few fixed energy transitions
    allowed!
    Separate or discrete electron energy
    levels
    • Only a few energy jumps allowed
    • These energy jumps are not necessarily all
    the same size
    Different fixed size energy jumps

    • different colour lines


    • different set of lines for each element
    Now for hydrogen!
    • The simplest atom of all
    • Only 1 electron to think about
    • But lots of energy levels !

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