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Hi all, thanks for your feedback. So the short story is that b/c the electron cloud has a uniform charge distribution there's a different set of dynamics at play. As the nucleus and electron cloud move apart, the force holding them together strengthens. Eventually this force will become...

Hi all, I am having a hard time understanding the following scenario (I'm quoting from page 305 of the "Electricity & Magnetism" textbook which you can access via Google Books): "Assume a simple model for an atom which consists of a point nucleus (+q) surrounded by a uniformly charged...