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need help with a problem
« on: November 28, 2008, 07:42:35 PM »
the problem says : how do you calculate the dissociation energy of hydrogen 2+ at 400 celsius if you have a table of transition wavelengths of vibrational energy level separations at 300 kelvin. assuming that these transition wavelengths are dependent on temperature and they decrease by 1.000% for every 5 celsius increase in temperature. Also it said not to use a linear extrapolation to determine the value.

I am very confused on how to start doing this problem.  I tried to break down the last part of the problem and using different equations but they seemed wrong to me. 
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Re: need help with a problem
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2008, 08:23:13 PM »
It will not let me modify my post anymore but I wanted to say that I though the last part reminded me of continuous compounded interest equation thats used in math but I can use it since I don't know what initially it was.

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Re: need help with a problem
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2008, 11:09:01 PM »
First, what would it be at 300K?
Can you work that?

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Re: need help with a problem
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2008, 12:52:18 AM »
thats where I am confused

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