Recent content by Dahaka

Electrons do not crash into the nucleus because both "orbits" and energy for electrons are quantized; they are discrete entities, not continuous. The "orbits" are discrete in that there are only a certain number of "allowed" orbits. They are like steps on a set of stairs...I guess you could...

I am what is called an LA (Learning Assistant) for an introductory physics class and I'm a freshman. One problem in which I have in convincing the students is how forces are equal and opposite. For instance: A large truck breaks down out on the road and receives a push back into the town by a...

first, let's set it straight that a light is neither a particle nor a wave, it is BOTH, whenever experiments are carried out, it is OBSERVED as either or, but it is still a wave-particle under the de broglie duality, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle prevents us from observing it as both, as...