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Consider two identical boxes filled with hydrogen atoms. The atoms in Box A are illuminated by a beam of ultraviolet light, while the atoms in Box B collide with a beam of electrons. The light has a wavelength of 97.3 nm in vacuum. Each electron in the electron beam has the same energy as each photon in the beam of light.
For electrons, the potential energy levels are the difference between the excited energy state that the atom is knocked into subtracted from the ground state 12.75 eV. The possible values are 2.55 eV, 0.65 eV, and 12.75 eV.
Please show how the three values above are calculated.