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Question

When an excited hydrogen atom returned to its ground state, some visible quanta were observed along with other quanta. Which of the following transitions must have occurred?

Options

A.2  →   1
B.3  →  1
C.3  →  2
D.4  →  2

Solution

Since some visible quanta were observed along with other quanta, electrons must have made transition from some higher state to n = 2 and then from n = 2 to n = 1
∴    Transition from 2 → 1 is compulsory, because electron from n = 2 will finally fall into n = 1.

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