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Hydr0matic said:What I'm asking is if an EM wave, emitted by a charge oscillating vertically and horisontally, could produce multiple discrete lines when passed through a prism.
so IN THEORY, there should be an oscillation pattern that yields the hydrogen spectrum ?Tyger said:A sinusoidal oscillation will produce a "pure" wave of one frequency, so that only one spectral line will be produced. Any other type of oscillation will produce harmonics so that a discrete spectrum will be produced.
That is an exact answer, by the way.