Physics307L F08:People/Trujillo/Balmer

=Balmer Series=

Objective
To learn how to calibrate and use the spectrometer to determine the wavelengths of certain spectra to determine the Balmer series and Rydberg constant.

Hydrogen
Rydberg Constant = $$1.1061*10^{-7}$$

STDV $$4.6*10^{-10}$$

Summary

And of course the excel file that I have in my notebook is corrupted. Apperantly our calibration data is off but for some reason the values we calculated for the Rydberg constants are within accepted values. I didnt expand the Balmer series as many students did.