Value of The Rydberg Constant and Rydberg Unit of Energy
According to the 2010 CODATA the constant is:
where is the rest mass of the electron, is the elementary charge, is the permittivity of free space, is the Planck constant, and is the speed of light in a vacuum.
This constant is often used in atomic physics in the form of the Rydberg unit of energy:
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