stunner5000pt
Nov30-04, 12:57 PM
UNLIke most of the people who keep bumping their thread up by posting in it, i will bump this post up like that and SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT POSTING PART SOLUTION FOR YOUR EFFORT
but on to the question i have
The mean lifetime of the hydrogen atom in the first excited state is 10ns
What is the mean number of time an electron in the first excited state will revolve about the nucleus before returning to the ground sate with emission of a photon?
first of all n = 2, first EXCITED state
now i know \Delta E \Delta t \geq \frac{h}{2 \pi}
i can calculate the energy of the electron in this state but the mean number of times?? Is there something in the statistics that im not geting here???
but on to the question i have
The mean lifetime of the hydrogen atom in the first excited state is 10ns
What is the mean number of time an electron in the first excited state will revolve about the nucleus before returning to the ground sate with emission of a photon?
first of all n = 2, first EXCITED state
now i know \Delta E \Delta t \geq \frac{h}{2 \pi}
i can calculate the energy of the electron in this state but the mean number of times?? Is there something in the statistics that im not geting here???