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The ground-state energy of a harmonic oscillator is 6 eV. If the oscillator undergoes a transition...

The ground-state energy of a harmonic oscillator is 6 eV. If the oscillator undergoes a transition from its n=3 to n=2 level by emitting a photon, what is the energy (in eV) of the emitted photon?

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