Absorption Spectroscopy

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This Demonstration shows some general qualitative features of absorption spectroscopy, common to all types of spectroscopy. Given a stack of quantized energy levels—atomic, molecular or nuclear—radiation will be absorbed when its frequency matches one of the energy level differences, according to the Bohr condition
, assuming the transition is allowed by the appropriate selection rules.
Contributed by: S. M. Blinder (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Snapshot 1: The complete spectrum, after frequency sweeps over its full range.
Snapshot 2: Assignments of the peaks are shown.
Snapshot 3: Spectrum at low resolution. The peaks become "washed out". An infrared spectrum like this one can still be useful to identify different compounds.
For more information, see S. M. Blinder, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics,pp 8-10.
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"Absorption Spectroscopy"
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Published: March 7 2011