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Danish physicist Neil\'s Bohr proposed the first \"decent\'\" model of the hydro

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Question

Danish physicist Neil's Bohr proposed the first "decent'" model of the hydrogen atom. He imagined hydrogen as planetary like, where the electron is a tiny particle moving in a circular orbit about a stationary proton. In the lowest-energy orbit (IS state), Bohr calculated the orbital radius (the distance from the proton to the electron) to be 5.29 times 10^-11 m, and a constant linear speed of the electron at 2.18 times 10^6 m/s. Calculate (a) the angular speed of the electron, (b) the number orbits the electron makes about the proton each second, and (c) the electron's centripetal acceleration.

Explanation / Answer

given

radius of orbit, r = 5.29*10^-11 m

v = 2.18*10^6 m/s

a) use, v = r*w

==> w = v/r

= 2.18*10^6/(5.29*10^-11)

= 4.12*10^16 rad/s

b) no of rotations per second, f = w/(2*pi)

= 4.12*10^16/(2*pi)

= 6.56*10^15

c) electrons centriptela acceleration, a_rad = v^2/r

= (2.18*10^6)^2/(5.29*10^-11)

= 8.98*10^22 m/s^2