Physics: Principles with Applications
Physics: Principles with Applications
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ISBN: 9780130606204
Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 27, Problem 25Q
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Why Balmer series discovered first over Lyman series.

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The spectral line emissions of hydrogen atoms are first discovered using the Balmer series. It consists visible radiation spectrum i.e. the spectral lines are lies in the visible light range and could be seen with using any experiments.

Later the experiments on hydrogen showed that there were similar series of lines that lies in UV (Lyman)and IR (Paschan)regions and each has serious of pattern like Balmer series but in different wavelength. This could seen using special detectors other than human sight.

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