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An electron in a hydrogen atom undergoes a transition from an orbit with quantum number n i . to another with quantum number n f . V i and V f are respectively the initial and final potential energies of the electon. If 
, then the smallest possible n f is
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5
(5)
minimum value of nf is 5.
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