A rough measurement of s- and p-quantum defects of Sodium based on general physical experiments

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  • Physical Experiment Teaching Center,School of Physics and Electronic Science,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200241,China

Received date: 2021-02-21

  Revised date: 2021-05-17

  Online published: 2021-12-15

Abstract

The adjustment of spectrometer and measurement of the prism's refrective index is a classic,general

physical experiment. In this experiment,students can directly see the Mercury spectrum

through prisms,which is vivid,while they do not explore the formation mechanism of atom spectrual lines. On the

contrary,the experiment of Sodium spectrum is a classic,modern physical experiment. Students

understand the nature of atoms and spectrual lines through the calculation of quantumn defects and

the drawing of energy level figures. This experiment combines the thoughts of these two experiments,where students first observe spectrual lines with familiar spectrometers,and calculate the s-and p-quantum defects of Sodium with interpolation methods to understand the characteristics of at- oms. The results ( 1.348 and 0.882,respectively) are in line with the ones carefully calculated,proving that this i- dea is rather practical.

Cite this article

DING You-ye, ZHANG San-jun, YIN Ya-ling . A rough measurement of s- and p-quantum defects of Sodium based on general physical experiments[J]. College Physics, 2021 , 40(12) : 62 . DOI: 10.16854 / j.cnki.1000-0712.210080

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