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Grade 12Modern Physics

We had studies that hydrogen atom has only one orbital. Then how is their exitation between different orbital in case of hydrogen if only one exist??????

Profile image of syed saif
12 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Arun Kumar
12 Years ago
Hi
See when you excite a electron some energy is spent.
That energy goes into putting it at a distance which is called the radius of second excited state means second orbit.
That space was there but the electron is only put there which we call excitation to second state.
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Arun Kumar, Btech, IIT delhi
Askiitians Faculty