Madeline Horn edited The_lowest_excitation_energy_of__.tex  over 8 years ago

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The lowest excitation energy of Neon was determined from the graph by finding the intercept of the linear fit at $n=0.5$. The value of the excitation energy found from the linear fit was then compared to the known value of the lowest excitation energy for Neon I ($16.619eV$ - taken from NIST ASD data).  The fits for thepeaks and  dips (which are really the peaks because the data was inverted)  are:\begin{equation}  E_n [eV] (Peaks) = (4.510\pm0.00)n + (9.950\pm0)  \end{equation}  \begin{equation}  E_n [eV] (Dips) = (-0.170\pm1.0)n + (19.45\pm3.2)