Rydberg formula

This was followed a few years later by the Rydberg formula, which described additional series of lines.

This was later extended to a general formula called the Rydberg formula.

An example was the Rydberg formula to predict the wavelengths of hydrogen spectral lines.

Rydberg formula, includes a discussion of Rydberg's original discovery.

The model's key success lay in explaining the Rydberg formula for the spectral emission lines of atomic hydrogen.

The version of the Rydberg formula that generated the Lyman series was:

Different versions of the Rydberg formula with different simple numbers were found to generate different series of lines.

The Rydberg formula is used in atomic physics to describe the wavelengths of spectral lines of many chemical elements.

The energy of Rydberg states can be refined by including a correction called the quantum defect in the Rydberg formula.

The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen is divided into a number of spectral series, with wavelengths given by the Rydberg formula.

(The Rydberg formula describes the energy level series of a Rydberg atom.)

While the Rydberg formula had been known experimentally, it did not gain a theoretical underpinning until the Bohr model was introduced.

The spectrum of hydrogen can be expressed simply in terms of the Rydberg constant, using the Rydberg formula.

The Bohr model then predicts that the wavelengths of hydrogen atomic transitions are (see Rydberg formula):

The energy differences between levels in the Bohr model, and hence the wavelengths of emitted/absorbed photons, is given by the Rydberg formula:

The spectroscopic assignment of these states follows the Rydberg formula and they are called Rydberg states of molecules.

This is known as the Rydberg formula, and the Rydberg constant R is , or in natural units.

Excited atoms with very high values of the principal quantum number, represented by n in the Rydberg formula, are called Rydberg atoms.

Balmer's formula was later found to be a special case of the Rydberg formula, devised by Johannes Rydberg.

Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919) was a renowned physicist famous for the Rydberg formula and the Rydberg constant.

The deduction of the Rydberg formula was a major step in physics, but it was long before an extension to the spectra of other elements could be accomplished.

In the Rydberg formula the frequency or wave number of the light emitted by a hydrogen-like atom is proportional to the difference between the two terms of a transition.

Although the Rydberg formula was developed to describe atomic energy levels, it has been used to describe many other systems that have electronic structure roughly similar to atomic hydrogen.

The energy levels of photons that can be absorbed or emitted by a hydrogen atom are, according to the Rydberg formula, proportional to the differences of two unit fractions.

The concepts of the Rydberg formula can be applied to any system with a single particle orbiting a nucleus, for example a He ion or a muonium exotic atom.