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JEE Mains · Physics · STD 12 - 12. atoms

A \(12.5\,eV\) electron beam is used to bombard gaseous hydrogen at room temperature. The number of spectral lines emitted will be:

  1. A \(2\)
  2. B \(1\)
  3. C \(3\)
  4. D \(4\)
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(C) \(3\)

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According to Bohr's postulates, an electron makes jump to higher energy orbital if it absorbs a photon of energy equal to difference between the energies of an excited state and the ground state. Assuming that collided electron takes energy equal to \(10.2\,eV\) or \(12.09\,eV\)…
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