Answer to Question #238224 in Electricity and Magnetism for sanalinda

Question

dear sir it says line spectrum has 2 element of absorption spectrum and emission spectrum and also it says these 2 elements can be applied to continuous spectrum too what is the meaning of that please help?

Answer 1

When light emitted directly from the source, and examined with spectrometer, then we obtained the emission spectrum.

In the continuous emission spectrum, the unbroken luminous bands of all wavelength containing all the colors from the violet to red. These spectra are depends on the temperature of the source. Which is independent of the characteristics of the source.

In the absorption spectrum, the emitted light from the source is made to pass through an absorbing material and we inspect this with the help of the spectrometer, in this the obtained spectrum is called the absorption spectrum.