Name: Elyana Heigham Quiz Section: BQ

Student ID: 1563914 Lab Partner: Abigail Gray

Chem 142 Experiment #1: Atomic Emission
Follow-up Report for Part I
Deadline: due in your TA's 3rd-floor mailbox 72 hours after your lab ends
In-lab: 37 points (report worksheet completed and handed in before leaving lab)
Take-home: 13 points (take-home report plus pg 9 of in-lab report packet)
Lab notebook pages: 5 pts Note: All sections of this
Total for reports and notebook: 60 pts report must be typed.

By signing below, you certify that you have not falsified data, that you have not plagiarized any part of this lab report, and that
all calculations and responses other than the reporting of raw data are your own independent work. Failure to sign this
declaration will result in 5 points being deducted from your report score.

Signature: Elyana Heigham x ________________________________________________________

DATA, CALCULATIONS AND GRAPHS

l (nm) ni (x 10-3nm-1)
409 6 2.44 0.028
433 5 2.31 0.0400
486 4 2.07 0.0625
651 3 1.54 0.1110
656 3 1.52 0.111

.Place your plot of 1/λ vs 1/ni2 here (cover this instruction box so your graph is an appropriate size) 4 pts
Inverse Initial Energy Level vs. Inverse Wavelength of Hydrogen
.Properly
3.00 label your graph (labels for axes, including units, and a title)

Include a trendline and its equation and R2 value on your graph. This is done by right-clicking on one of the data
2.50 on your graph and choosing "Add Trendline" from the drop down menu. The first tab asks what type of trendline
points
f(x)and
. you wish to use, = - 10.9671120125x
the Options tab+ 2.7487427124
allows you to include the trendline equation and R 2 value
R² = 0.999640631
2.00

1.50

1.00

0.50

0.00
0.020 0.030 0.040 0.050 0.060 0.070 0.080 0.090 0.100 0.110 0.120

Type your calculations for RH in (m-1) from the Excel-determined slope and y-intercept. (2 pts)

RH from the slope:

-RH = ( -10.967 x 10-3 nm-1)

= (-1.0967 x 10-2 nm-1 )
= (-1.0967 x 10-7 m-1 )
RH = (1.0967 x 107 m-1 )

RH from the y-intercept:

-RH (1/ni2 ) = 2.7487
RH /9= 2.7487 x 10-3 nm-1)
=2.473 x 107 m-1

Summary of Results

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In the table below, summarize the five values you have determined for the Rydberg constant, and calculated the percent
error from the literature value (1.0974x10 7m-1). (1 pts)

Source: Rydberg Constant (m-1) % Error

Part I.B. Question 3 In-lab Single Point 1.107 x 107 0.86% Error
Part I.B. Question 12 In-lab Slope 1.11 x 107 1.15% Error
Part I.B. Question 12 In-lab y-intercept 1.12 x 107 2.059% Error
This report Excel Slope 1.097 x 107 0.064% Error
This report Excel y-intercept 2.473 x 107 125% Error

Results and Discussion

1. Compare the accuracy of the five values you have determined for R H. Discuss benefits and drawbacks for the different
approaches for determining an accurate value for R H. (3 pts)

Of the Rh values, the single-point value was particularly accurate although not necessarily representative of all of the
wavelengths of the hydrogen emssion lines.
While the in-lab slope and in-lab y-intercepts were both representative of all of the hydrogen emission lines, human calculation
can only have a certain degree of accuracy which is likely the reason why these two calculations of the Rydberg Constant had
the greatest percentage of error
By far, the most accurate RH value was that from the Excel slope. This is unsurprising as computers tend to have more
numerical accuracy in calculations than human calculation. However, the excel slope, while being more accurate may be less
representitive of the actual data since excel does tend to round numbers when inappropriate.
Oddly, the y-intercept value from excel for the Rydberg Constant was the most inaccurate of all the measurements. While excel
was likely more accurate than the in-lab y-intercept, it has been shown through the insane amount of error that the excel y-
intercept is not an accurate means of calculating a Rydberg Constant from the data.

2. The general equation for the energy related to an electron moving from one energy level to another in a hydrogen atom
(Eqn 2 in the Introduction information provided in the lab manual) is:

or rearranged,

Using DEphoton = hn = hc/l and , along with your most accurate R H value, calculate an experimental

value for the constant in the equation (2.18 x 10-18 J). In other words, create Eqn 2 using the two given equations, and then
calculate your experimental value for the constant . Compare your calculated experimental value to the value provided in the
equation and discuss any differences in the magnitudes of the values (for the purposes of this report, you do not need to
discuss the different signs with these values). (3 pts)

constant =( hc/l )/(1/nf2 -1/ni2)

DEphoton = hc (1/l )

1/l = Rh (1/nf2 -1/ni2)

DEphoton /(1/nf2 -1/ni2) = hc (Rh )

constant =( hc * Rh )
= (6.626 x 10-34 j∙s) ( 2.99 x 108 m/s) (1.097 x 107 )

= 2.17 x 10-18 J
There was no real significant difference in the magnitude of the value although the experimental value was slightly different
numerically from the given value. My experimental value was off by 1 hundreth of a joule, so I can fortunately conclude that
my experimental Rydberg constant was reasonably accurate.

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