Re: Odd nuclear question

[Thomas Gleich Harrison <tomh@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

The "kinetic" energy of the electron is always half the binding energy of
the n "orbit"(shell) which is a negative quantity... you can get the
"velocity" from this. However, since the electron is a wave the wavelength
of which is locked into the orbit, the wave(electron) really has no
"velocity", only a frequency and thus energy. However, the electron still
has mass and thus "kinetic" energy........ the irony of reality on the
atomic scale !


Tom Harrison
Dept of Physics
Univ of North Texas
Denton, TX
tomh@facstaff.cas.unt.edu


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