CHEM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Strontium, Sodium Chloride, Rydberg Formula
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Procedure: see pages 26 and 27 of my lab notebook to view an outline of the general procedure to be followed for this experiment. Using the star spectrometer to collect data from the fluorescent light. In our sample calculations, we are using the rydberg equation to assign the upper state. In this experiment, we used different instruments to observe color and light associated with different wavelengths and elements. First, we used the star spectrometer to observe the fluorescent lights in the room and record our observations. Then, we used that same technique, except this time we looked at the hydrogen and helium tubes and recorded the colors and wavelengths that we saw. The rydberg equation can only be used with hydrogen, and not helium, because hydrogen is simple, easy to observe, and also only has one electron. 1 predicted by the rydberg equation and the balmer series diagram on wikipedia.
