Hydrogen spectrum of a spectrometer

In a spectrometer, such a discrete spectrum appears as a series of colored lines. A particular set of lines or wavelengths is characteristic of a certain element and can be used as a “fingerprint” for identifying an. In 1913 Neils Bohr proposed a physical model to describe the spectrum of the hydrogen atom. It was the birth of Quantum Mechanics! As a consequence, the energy of the electron around the nucleus is also quantized! In a real life experiment we can never measure the energy of the electron. The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen has been divided into a number of spectral series, with wavelengths given by the Rydberg formula. All other (neutral) atoms contain more electrons and are therefore many-body systems requiring. With a spectrometer, the emitted light can be broken down into its various colors or wavelength components and its “spectrum” is observed. [pdf]