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Calculate the wave number for the shortest wavelength transition in the Balmer series of atomic hydrogen.

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The shortest wavelength transition in the Balmer series corresponds to the transition n = 2 to n = ∞.

Hence, n1 = 2, n2 = 

For hydrogen spectrum

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