What wavelength of light contains enough energy in a single photon to ionize a hydrogen atom?

There's probably a much quicker, easier way to do it, but I don't work with this stuff every day so this is the way I have to do it:

First, I searched the "ionization energy" of Hydrogen on Floogle.  That's how much work it takes to rip the one electron away from its Hydrogen atom, and it's 13.6 eV (electron-volts).

In order to find the frequency/wavelength of a photon with that energy, I need the energy in units of Joules.

1 eV = 1.602 x 10⁻¹⁹ Joule  (also from Floogle)

13.6 eV = 2.179 x 10⁻¹⁸ Joule

OK.  Now we can use the popular well-known formula for the energy of a photon:

Energy = h · (frequency)  

or  Energy = h · (light speed/wavelength)

' h ' is Max Planck's konstant ... 6.626 × 10⁻³⁴ m²-kg / s

Wow !  The only thing we don't know in this equation is the wavelength, which is what we need to find.  That's gonna be a piece-o'-cake now, because we know the energy, we know ' h ', and we know the speed of light.

Wavelength = h · c / energy

Wavelength =

(6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ m²-kg/sec) · (3 x 10⁸ m/s) / (2.179 x 10⁻¹⁸ joule)

Wavelength = 9.117 x 10⁻⁸ meter

That's  91.1 nanometers .

It's not visible light (visible is between about 390 to 780 nm), but it's not as short as I was expecting.  I thought it was going to be an X-ray, but it's not that short.  X-rays are defined as 0.1 to 10 nanometers.  This result is in the short end of Ultra-violet.

(You have no idea how happy I am with this result.  I figured it out exactly the way I showed you, and I never peeked.  Then, AFTER I had my solution, I went to Floogle and searched to see what it really is, and whether I came out anywhere close.  I found it in the article on the "Lyman Series".  It says the wavelength of the energy released by an electron that falls in from infinity and settles in the n=1 energy level of Hydrogen is  91.175 nm !  This gives me a big hoo-hah for the day, and I'm going to bed now.)

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explanation:

wind is defined by the direction it blows from.   for example, a wind blowing from north to south is called a northerly wind.

gpe = mass x gravity constant x height or… gpe = mgh

where… mass: measured in kilograms (kg)

gravity: gravity constant on earth = 10.00 m/s2

height: measured in meters (m)

gpe: measured in joules (j) or kilojoules (kj)

how do you solve gpe?

gravitational potential energy (gpe) is the energy an object has because of its position above the. ground.

gpe = mass x gravity constant x height or… gpe = mgh.

mass:

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formula.

example:

given values:

mass = 0.3 kg.