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Q. The energy difference between the first two levels of hydrogen atom is 10.2eV. For another element of atomic number 10 and mass number 20, this will be

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Solution:

For hydrogen atom, energy difference
$\Delta E_{H}=R h c\left(\frac{1}{n_{1}^{2}}-\frac{1}{n_{2}^{2}}\right)$
For other atoms,
$\Delta E'Z^{2} R h c\left(\frac{1}{n_{1}^{2}}-\frac{1}{n_{2}^{2}}\right)=Z^{2} \Delta E_{H} $
$=(10)^{2} \times 10.2 $
$=1020\, eV$