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The treatment of electrons as waves has combined with spherical harmonics (below image) to form the foundation for a modern understanding of how electrons "orbit."
Tweaks to the spherical harmonic differential equations yields the Schrodinger equation, which yields the accepted models of electron orbital structures:
The only element for which the ...
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There are many possible examples of this, and you may need to be more specific in what you want. Here are two that immediately come to mind:
1) A bead in a harmonic trap (or a bending cantilever) that is undergoing thermal kicks from Brownian motion. The strength of these fluctuations depends on temperature; if the temperature of the system changes over ...
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I can't see how a negatively charged electron can stay in "orbit" around a positively charged nucleus. Even if the electron actually orbits the nucleus, wouldn't that orbit eventually decay?
Yes. What you've given is a proof that the classical, planetary model of the atom fails.
I can't reconcile the rapidly moving electrons required by the ...
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There's another answer to this unrelated to quantum physics. Why doesn't a wandering electron headed towards a wandering proton hit the proton? The answer is that built into electrostatic (or coulombic) force is both an attractive and a repulsive force. Opposites attract, but only until they get really close, and then they repell (yes, the analogy to ...
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I'm surprised the "real" schematic doesn't include a transformer turns ratio (actually, a model for the high voltage transformer, which has a primary winding with $N_p$ turns connected to the power oscillatory circuit and a secondary winding with $N_s$ turns (with $N_s > N_p$) connected to the discharge gap). Maybe everything is referenced to its ...
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