SupposeRayan said:
I suppose that the peaks can be used to get a difference in the wave number for the transition, and from that I can get the energy difference! Am I thinking right here?kuruman said:
The intensity of the transitions? But It does not really help me to know which peaks corresponds to the transition I'm looking forvela said:
Bohr magnetonharuspex said:
The energy difference between what and what? Each peak is a photon energy which is a difference between energy levels. There is also an energy difference between peaks. I suggest that you look up “Zeeman effect”.Rayan said:
The Zeeman effect refers to the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. This phenomenon is named after the Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman, who first observed it in 1896.
The energy difference between the peaks in the Zeeman effect is caused by the interaction between the magnetic moment of electrons and the external magnetic field. This interaction leads to different energy levels depending on the orientation of the electron's magnetic moment relative to the magnetic field.
The energy difference (ΔE) between the peaks in the Zeeman effect can be calculated using the formula ΔE = μ_B * B * g * m_J, where μ_B is the Bohr magneton, B is the magnetic field strength, g is the Landé g-factor, and m_J is the magnetic quantum number.
The magnitudes of the energy differences in the Zeeman effect are typically very small, often in the range of microelectronvolts (μeV) to millielectronvolts (meV), depending on the strength of the magnetic field and the specific atomic or molecular transitions involved.
In the normal Zeeman effect, which occurs in systems with a total spin quantum number S = 0, the spectral line splits into three equally spaced components. In the anomalous Zeeman effect, which occurs in systems with non-zero spin (S ≠ 0), the splitting is more complex and results in multiple components due to the additional spin-orbit coupling.