Ritz combination principle

[rits]

Ritz combination principle

[rits]
noun Physics.
the principle that the frequencies of lines in atomic spectra can be represented as differences of a smaller number of terms, all characteristic of the emitting system, interpreted in quantum theory as the emission of exactly one photon in a transition between energy levels.


Origin:
after Walther Ritz (1878–1909), Swiss physicist, who formulated it
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Ritz combination principle is always a great word to know.
So is law of gravitation. Does it mean:
a sequence of changing states that produces a final state identical to the original one; one of a succession of periodically recurring events
any two masses attract each other with a force equal to a constant, multiplied by the product of the two masses, divided by the square of the distance between them
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