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Solution: Using the Bohr model, determine the energy, in joules, necessary to ionize a ground-state hydrogen atom. Show your calculations.

Problem

Using the Bohr model, determine the energy, in joules, necessary to ionize a ground-state hydrogen atom. Show your calculations.

Solution

The equation of energy from Bohr model states that:

where En is the energy at nth level, k (2.179x10-18J) is a constant and n is the number of shell

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