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The Balmer series for the hydrogen atom corresponds to electronic transitions that terminate in the state with quantum number n = 2 as shown in the figure below. Consider the photon of longest wavelength corresponding to a transition shown in the figure.
(a) Determine its energy
(b) Determine its wavelength
Consider the spectral line of shortest wavelength corresponding to a transition shown in the figure
(c) Find its photon energy
(d) Find its wavelength
(e) What is the shortest possible wavelength in the Balmer series?