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Ranking Task: Hydrogen State Transitions

This ranking task presents icons representing orbital transitions in the hydrogen atom. The transitions are randomly shown for emitted and absorbed light. Five of the 9 largest energy transitions are randomly illustrated. Users are randomly asked to order the transitions in terms of increasing/decreasing wavelength, frequency, or energy.

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