Because here what we have is some atom that we're studying, in the case, it's going to be a gas, and we hit it with a photon that has some incident energy.

因为这里我们要研究的是一些原子,在这种情况下，一般是气态的，然后我们令一个,具有一定初始能量的光子打上去。

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The first that we need to know the energy of the photon that's incident on our gaseous atom.

首先，我们需要知道,入射到气体原子的光子的能量。

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