Low energy (a) How many spectral lines would this atom have? Explain how you kno

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Low energy (a) How many spectral lines would this atom have? Explain how you know (b) What is the highest energy spectral line? (c) What is the lowest energy spectral line? Problem 12: You're about to finally leave the coffee shop, when you overhear the following astronony question: "Wikipedia says that the surface of the sun is comprised of 73.81% hydrogen, 24.85% helium, and 1.34% other elementsBut spacecraft con't get anywhere near the surface of the sun to take a sample! How could scientists possibly knou these percentages to such high precision?" , Do you have any ideas? Tpdt Steam Sisyphus

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The sun light reaching earth can be studied using spectral analysis. The emission and absorption spectras provide us a lot of info about the composition of the surface of the sun. Not only sun, we can do similar analysis for others stars, galaxies etc.

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