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Why Don’t Electrons Crash Into the Nucleus? Explained

December 2, 2015
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Atoms are stable because electrons do not behave as classical orbiting particles. Quantum mechanics describes electrons using wavefunctions and stationary…
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Have Scientists Seen an Electron? How We Detect Them

November 17, 2015
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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…
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Learn the Relativistic Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem

August 23, 2015
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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…
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