Question: How much work must be done to pull apart the electron and the proton that make up the hydrogen atom if the atom is initially

How much work must be done to pull apart the electron and the proton that make up the hydrogen atom if the atom is initially in?
(a) Its ground state and
(b) The state with n = 2?

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