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Spectral lines are produced by electrons moving from high energy orbitals to lower energy orbitals. Electrons have a quality called "spin" - they either spin "up" or "down". The spin of an electron interacts with the applied magnetic field.
As a result, where there was one transition from a higher to a lower orbital, the interaction between the electron spin and the applied magnetic field creates two slightly different energy transitions, one for the spin "up" electrons and the other for the spin "down" electrons. This is what produces two spectral lines in place of the original one line.
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Why splitting of spectral lines take place in magnetic field?
The Zeeman Effect
Who discovered subshells?
Discovery of sub shell:- Sub shells are discovered by: Zeeman effect and stack effect. - - Spliting of spectral lines into further sharp lines when an excited atom is placed in magnetic and electric field respectively ...
What is the zeeman effect?
The Zeeman effect is the splitting of single spectral lines into three or more in the presence of a magnetic field.
What are the dark lines in a stellar spectrum are called?
Fraunhofer realised that some of these dark lines were at the same position in effect called the Zeeman effect can also cause splitting of the spectral lines.
Differences between anomalous zeeman effect and normal?
normal zeeman effect occurs in strong magnetic field while anamolous zeeman effect occur in weak magnetic field
What does zeeman effect mean?
The splitting of single spectral lines of an emission or absorption spectrum of a substance into three or more components when the substance is placed in a magnetic field. The effect occurs when several electron orbitals in the same shell, which normally have the same energy level, have different energies due to their different orientations in the magnetic field. A normal Zeeman effectis observed when a spectral line of an atom splits into three lines under a magnetic field. An anomalous Zeeman effectis observed if the spectral line splits into more than three lines. Astronomers can use the Zeeman effect to measure magnetic fields of stars. Compare Stark effect.
Sunspots are known to be magnetic phenomena because?
Sunspots are known to be magnetic phenomena because of the Zeeman effect. The Zeeman effect has been found in sunspots.
What is a Zeeman slower?
A Zeeman slower is a system which allows the cooling of atoms to temperatures of a few kelvins, based on the principle that a magnetic field can change the resonance frequency of an atom using the Zeeman effect.
For what did Pieter Zeeman receive a Nobel Prize?
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1902 with his partner Hendrik Lorentz. They discovered the Zeeman effect, a physics principle.
What has the author Ted Hadeishi written?
Ted Hadeishi has written: 'Zeeman atomic absorption spectrometry' -- subject(s): Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Zeeman effect
What is stark and zeeman effect?
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Does zeeman effect prove that there are high magnetic fields in sunspots?
Observations show that the spectral lines of light from sunspots are split. This is consistent with them having high magnetic fields (and it's even possible to estimate how high by the degree of splitting), because that's what the Zeeman effect is: the splitting of electronic energy levels (which in turn affects the spectrum of transitions involving those energy levels) by an external magnetic field.The effect itself doesn't directly have anything to do with sunspots particularly, and I'm not certain that I'd use the word prove, but the splitting combined with knowledge of the Zeeman effect is pretty substantial evidence that sunspots are correlated with magnetic flux.
