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Figure 4.1
Schematic representation of atomic transitions
between electronic states.
and ground states, respectively (where g = 2J + 1, J is the third quantum number), k is the Boltzmann
constant and T is the temperature. Thus,
If we express N, the total number of atoms present, as the sum of the population of all levels, i.e. N =
SN, then
j
j
where F(T) is known as the partition function.
