The Franck-Hertz experiment involved shooting electrons into a low-density gas of mercury atoms and observing discrete amounts of kinetic energy loss by the electrons. Suppose instead a similar experiment is done with a very cold gas of atomic hydrogen, so that all of the hydrogen atoms are initially in the ground state. If the kinetic energy of an electron is 11.1 eV just before it collides with a hydrogen atom, how much kinetic energy will the electron have just after it collides with and excites the hydrogen atom? Kfinal = eV

the final kinetic energy is 0.9eV

Explanation:

To find the kinetic energy of the electron just after the collision with hydrogen atoms you take into account that the energy of the electron in the hydrogen atoms are given by the expression:

you can assume that the shot electron excites the electron of the hydrogen atom to the first excited state, that is

-10.2eV is the energy that the shot electron losses in the excitation of the electron of the hydrogen atom. Hence, the final kinetic energy of the shot electron after it has given -10.2eV of its energy is:

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