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### What is the amplitude of the electron wave when it is orbiting nucleus?

We all know that electrons have wave properties and we can calculate the de Broglie wavelength. But what about the amplitude of the wave?
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### Could an electron enter the nucleus, and if so would it be captured by a proton?

I've been trying to find an answer to this question, but have come across contradictory answers, and have limited knowledge of quantum mechanics myself. Almost all the threads (here and on Quora) ...
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### What prevents the nucleus from wandering into the electron cloud?

I have seen the question about why the electrons don't fall into the nucleus, and I understand that completely. However, the converse of this question is very interesting as well: "What prevents the ...
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### Does hidden variable quantum mechanics imply the collapse of atoms(electrons falling into the nucleus)?

why do atoms not collapse on themselves. Doesnt this problem rule hidden variables as invalid as the heisenburg uncertainty is the solution to the problem because it says electrons exist in a ...
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### What force keeps electrons in their orbitals and not collapse into the positively charged nucleus? [duplicate]

I know about quantum mechanical model of an atom and how electrons behave like a standing waves and there isn't any lower level energy available for electrons below ground state energy and energy ...
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### Can an electron be inside a proton?

This article has an image showing the 2S and 2P states of a hydrogen atom. The caption makes the following claim: The 2S and 2P states of hydrogen show where the electron could be found at any ...
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### Why do electrons fall into the nucleus in Rutherford's model of the atom but not in Bohr's model?

In Rutherford's atomic model, an atom's nucleus can't survive because of the electromagnetic theory of Maxwell. But in Bohr's model it can survive. My question is: in both atomic models, electrons ...
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### An alternative explanation of electron distribution in a Hydrogen atom

So basically I have this idea, we can't see how does an electron really move because of its small size and the wavelength of light being comparatively being much larger. What if we took two spheres (...
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### Bohr atomic model: does the electron fall?

I know this is a classical system, and thus not compliant with the quantum nature of real atoms. But please bare with me. I have heard this before: the orbiting electron should radiate in the ...
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### Why are Nuclei stable and what do neutrons change there?

I am currently thinking about nuclear fission and realized that I forgot some basic facts I've learned (and understood... at least I thought so) some years ago in school. I know that electrons are ...
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### Are transitions between stationary orbits part of the Bohr model? [closed]

The first assumption of the Bohr atomic model states that the electrons can only orbit stably, without radiating, in certain orbits (called by Bohr the "stationary orbits") at a certain discrete set ...
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### Why don't protons collapse to a point?

If the quarks that make up the proton are point particles, and the forces binding them together is the strong force which is $137$ times stronger than the electromagnetic force (which makes the quarks ...
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### Brehmsstrahlung radiation query - If an electron is constantly being decelerated, how does it emit a photon with a fixed energy?

According to my textbook they simply say an electron is decelerated by a nuclei and this means it loses KE. The difference in KE is given off as a photon. But an electron is always being pulled back ...