Atomic Spectral Lines

Success Criteria:

1. Appreciate the history of the discovery of the atomic spectra – Lyman, Balmer, Paschen etc.

2. Explain and derive the Balmer equation for line spectra.

3. Demonstrate a knowledge of the production of the atomic emission and absorption line spectra.

4. Calculate the energy associated with a particular emission or absorption line using E = hf.

5. Describe Rutherford’s experiment and his eventual model for the atom.

6. Understand Bohr’s improvements on the Rutherford model.

7. Understand how the energy level diagram arises, and electron transition between the levels.