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Exploring Space & Planetary Defense High School & University
Spectroscopy
Course Access: 365 days access
Course Overview
The spectrum of an object is a graph of the intensity of radiation vs wavelength. A blackbody will give a continuous spectrum. But what causes the lines in the other types of spectra? Can these lines help in the understanding of the properties of the matter responsible for the various spectra?
Index:
- Introduction
Announcements - Spectroscopy
- 1. A Little History . . .
- 2. Kirchhoff’s Laws
- 3. Jakob Balmer and Niels Bohr
- 4. Energy Levels and Spectra
- 5. Spectra from Space
- 6. Spectroscopy Proficiency Project
- Send a Postcard to Space!
