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The energy levels of an hydrogen atom are shown below. The transition corresponding to emission of shortest wavelength is

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Wavelength of photons released during de-excitation is given by,
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Clearly, shortest wavelength will correspond to highest energy difference in de-excitation, which in the given figure will correspond to transition from to
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