CHEM1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Spectroscopy, Radiant Energy, Photon

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The absorption of light by a molecule allows it to move from an initial quantum state with energy e1 to a final quantum state with energy e2. All types of spectroscopy (except for mass spectroscopy) can be understood with this diagram. We call a quanta of light energy a photon. Energy of a photon depends on its colour. Gamma rays and x rays have high energy (dangerous) Radio waves (e. g. radio, mobile phone) have low energy (safe) Blue is close to violet, so blue has higher energy. Infrared = heat not usually dangerous, red has lower energy. Em radiation always travels at speed of life * in a vacuum. It must be transitions from one state to another state within hydrogen. Only types of energy levels are electronic. H spectra goes from uv to ir (and beyond) Each discrete spectral line arises from the electron going from one orbital to another orbital.

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