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Balmer SeriesIntroduction & SafetyIn this lab, we will be using a very old Constant Deviation Spectrometer to measure the Rydberg constant based on the spectra of Hydrogen and Deuterium, and also the difference between the spectral wavelengths for these two. As for safety, the main thing is don't get electrocuted. This means turning off and unplugging the lamp power before removing or inserting a new bulb. Other important things to note, for equipment safety rather than our own, is that we should never touch the prism because we could easily damage it with fingerprints and that we should be very careful not to break the bulbs. CalibrationBefore we do any real data taking, we need to perform a simple calibration for our instrument. For this, we will use the given values of wavelengths (λ) and colors to match to our corresponding wavelengths and colors. In the end of the experiment, we will use this data to account for a kind of "calibration error" that will appear in every part of our data. Here is the data we took for initial calibration:
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