Sunil Kumar FP
Last Activity: 10 Years ago
The Balmer series is the light emitted when the electron moves from shell n to shell 2. So the lowest energy line is emitted in the transition from n = 3 to n = 2, the next line is from n = 4 to n = 2, and so on.
But the energy does not keep going up as you increase the value of n, because the energies of the orbitals (wrt the vaccum) tend to zero for large n. So as n \rightarrow \infty the energy released in moving from n nto 2 will tend to a finite limit. This is thelimiting line.