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05-19-2015
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Undergraduate
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This is a homework activity designed to help students understand how a discharge lamp works and how energy is transferred in each process involved in discharge lamps. It was developed to be used in a modern physics class, after lecture instruction on atomic transitions and discharge lamps. The accompanying PhET simulation can be found here: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/discharge-lamps

Authors: Sam McKagan, Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman