Why does electrons hover around the core of the atom instead of moving towards protons? I thought opposite charges were supposed to attract one another.
Why does electrons hover around the core of the atom instead of moving towards protons...
Hunter Gonzalez
Jack Jones
lol chemistry is just a theory they still haven't proven it. if it were real gravity would pull all the electrons to the center of the earth and electricity wouldnt work
Parker Gutierrez
they do.
the closer you are to the nucleus the more probability of finding an electron around it. this decreases with distance
Brody Gomez
that's basically what orbiting is. What electrons do around a proton is no different from the earth orbiting the sun, just on a really really tiny level. Orbiting is just perpetual falling in an elliptical motion.
Carson Rodriguez
Isn't earth orbiting around the sun in a flat ring, while the neutron moves in 3d space?
Camden Evans
Neutrons
This is physics stuff
They don't orbit
Nolan Taylor
>electrons hover around the core of the atom
they don't and they're not small spheres either
Samuel Hill
This desu
Ayden Powell
So you're saying eventually the sun will swallow earth?
Jace Hernandez
But nothing disturbs planets orbiting the sun. If they did I'm sure now and then one of them would end up spinning into the sun.
Jason Hill
Then how do you explain the "layers" of electrons? How do those small bastards understand to align in logically functioning electron layers and to seek 8 electrons to their outer layer?
Juan Flores
muh wave distribution
But seriously, take a quantum mechanics class.
Aiden Turner
Are you suggesting that the atom model is too complicated to be explained by Veeky Forums? T.op
Noah Roberts
we're lazy to explain things to people who cannot use google for simple questions.
Austin Wilson
>nothing disturbs planets orbiting the sun
Well there are meteors, space junk, and also us shooting rockets off of Earth (that will never return), so the orbits are disturbed. Fortunately elliptical orbits are considerably stable (compared to say circular orbits, which would very easily spiral out of control), which is why the Earth hasn't been smacked into the sun
Xavier Gutierrez
read this guys
This is because if heisenberg incertitude principle, the more electron get close to the nucleus, the more it ask them to have a precise location. However if they have a precise location they cannot have a precise energy. But the energy is quantic and precise in the observation, this is why the electron bound to the nucleus.
Therefore the electron cannot have a location as precise as being inside the nucleus otherwise it won't be bounded to the nucleus (meaning the atom would not exist).
Jayden Rogers
But still I can envisage a scenario where an electron loses its momentum, making it at the mercy of the nucleus it orbits, and being pulled in. Can this never happen? It seems like it ought to be happening a lot.
Justin Harris
"To sum up, the probability density and radial probability plots express two different things: the first shows the electron density at any single point in the atom, while the second, which is generally more useful to us, tells us the the relative electron density summed over all points on a circle of given radius.
References
Why Doesn't the Electron Fall Into the Nucleus? Franklin Mason and Robert Richardson, J Chem. Ed. 1983 (40-42). See also the comment on this article by Werner Luck, J Chem Ed 1985 (914)."
Daniel Rogers
If electrons orbited the nucleus in the way you believe they do, then yes. Even if left in a vacuum, the electrons would be constantly accelerating (due to orbiting nucleus), and would thus emit radiation, and 'lose' energy through that.
(The spoiler is that the orbital model of which you speak is probably wrong / too simple)
Carter Edwards
Thank you user for that source, but I didn't understand much after reading it. Although now it seems like those models like in the OP pic are misleading. I guess I have more studying to do. T.op
Jonathan Anderson
look at OP's picture they're just flat rings it only looks like 3D motion because there's a lot of them
Caleb King
Before an electron is observed it exists in a superposition of all possible states, effectivly an assembly of different probabilities. A certain number of those states will be inside the radius of the nucleus. However once the electron is observed the probability collapses to a single state. the most likely state is (off the top of my head) [math]3a/4 [/math] where [math] a [/math] is the Bohr radius, normally when we do some experiment like this we take a large number of electrons and then look at the average, which is predicted (and experimentally verified) to be [math] a [/math].
The take away points from this are:
>The electron has no definite position before a measurement is made
>On measurement, the probability distribution collapses to single state
>The most likely position is [math] 3a/4 [/math]
>It has a small, but non-zero, probability of being found within the radius of the nucleus.
Zachary Turner
god doesn't play dice
Thomas Nguyen
>Einstein pls go
But seriously at this point it's pretty clear the man lost that debate (hell it was pretty clear during his life time).
Jaxson Stewart
>attract one another
because electrons hate each other
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