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Why Electrons Don’t Crash Into the Nucleus — Quantum View
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Atoms and Coulomb forces
If atoms were described only by Coulomb attraction, the electron and nucleus would attract each other and, according to classical…

Have Scientists Seen an Electron? How We Detect Them
Have Scientists Seen an Electron? Why Seeing Isn't Enough
This article is not about literally seeing a single electron with your eye; it addresses the…

Learn the Relativistic Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem
I was bothered for a long time by the reasons for the relativistic validity of the work-kinetic energy relation ##\Delta E=Fd##, which holds without any…
