Calculate the recoil kinetic energy of the atom


A hydrogen atom at rest in the laboratory produces the Lyman α radiation.

(i) Calculate the recoil kinetic energy of the atom.

(ii) At what fraction of the excitation energy of n = 2 state is carried through the recoiling atom? (Hint: make use of conservation of momentum.)

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