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6.6 Exercise 44

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In extreme-temperature environments, such as those existing in a solar corona, atoms may be ionized by undergoing collisions with other atoms. One example of such ionization in the solar corona is the presence of C5+\text{C}^{5 +} ions, detected in the Fraunhofer spectrum. (a) By what factor do the energies of the C5+\text{C}^{5 +} ion scale compare to the energy spectrum of a hydrogen atom? (b) What is the wavelength of the first line in the Paschen series of C5+\text{C}^{5 +} ? (c) In what part of the spectrum are these lines located?

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