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How much energy is required to excite a hydrogen atom from its ground state to second excited state?

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The energy of an electron in nth shell of a hydrogen atom is given as
E=13.6×1n2eV

Hence the energy required to excite it from (13) is

=13.6(112132)eV

=12.08eV

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