Its discoverer observed that, at electric field densities of 100,000 volts per centimeter, Balmer lines were split into symmetrically spaced components, with the electric vector parallel to the lines of the force, and the remainder polarized perpendicular to the direction of the field except when viewed along the field.
Its discoverer observed that, at electric field densities of 100,000 volts per centimeter, Balmer lines were split into symmetrically spaced components, with the electric vector parallel to the lines of the force, and the remainder polarized perpendicular to the direction of the field except when viewed along the field. It is proportional to the ion and electron density in a plasma and is thus used as an indicator of pressure in a stellar atmosphere, and although it is of limited benefit in the analysis of atomic spectra, it is often used for analysis of molecular rotational spectra. The splitting of spectral lines observed when radiating atoms, ions, or molecules are subjected to a strong electric field, for 10 points identify this electric analogue of the Zeeman effect.
Its discoverer observed that, at electric field densities of 100,000 volts per centimeter, Balmer lines were split into symmetrically spaced components, with the electric vector parallel to the lines of the force, and the remainder polarized perpendicular to the direction of the field except when viewed along the field.
{Stark} Effect