Electron Definition and 999 Threads

Hello, Given a simple electric circuit like the one below (taken from Wikipedia) If we were to start from tracking all the forces acting on each individual free electron in the circuit, would it be possible to eventually find all the currents and voltages acting in the circuit? Probably a...

In any simple carboxylic acid there are two oxygen atoms then i have a confusion that which oxygen has more negative charge on it or which one has the most electron density on it?

Here I am only considering 4 adjacent electrons in electron beam, especially the 2 electrons that are moving in tandem with velocity v. Moving charge will generate circular magnetic current. you can imagine magnetic flux as current, just like electric current. So, the question is same to find...

This website here says that the expression for binding energy for an electron is: This http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/chemistry/exam-prep/structure-of-matter/atomic-theory-and-atomic-structure/MITHFH_lecnotes05.pdfby MIT calculates it quantum mechanically to give: The book I was reading...

I hope I'm not violating any rules with this question i believe its the correct forum When free floating electron(s) enter a magnetic field @ a right angle, do they take a circular orbit around such field?

An electron displays both wave and particle like properties. Does it exhibit these at the same time or at different times?

We know Earth grounding is huge electron sink. But the Earth is not portable, what material can absorb lots of electron inside or on surface? Maybe the supercapacitors already use it as its cathode? and what material dislike electron and push electron away? thanks

How Carbon-14 effectively gains a proton but no electrons when decaying to Nitrogen-14...?

What happens when two ferromagnets with opposite electron spins interact with each other? Assuming the magnets are placed in conditions under the Curie temperature of the material, would their spins not change because the magnetic susceptibility is not high enough? Thank you.

Homework Statement An electron with velocity ##\vec{v}_0=8.7*10^4(m/s)## (in the î direction) passing through an area with a uniform magnetic field ##\vec{B}=0.80 T## (in the negative k̂ direction). There's also a uniform electric field in this area. What is the magnitude and direction of...

Homework Statement A resting electron was sped up to 0.5 of the speed of light. Find: A. relativistic mass of the electron, B. total energy of the electron, C. kinetic energy of the electron. Homework Equations K = mv^2/2 E=mc^2 The Attempt at a Solution Let’s first find the kinetic energy...

Hi! I'm getting ready for an exam and want to make sure if I solved some problems correctly. I would be grateful for your feedback :smile: 1. Homework Statement After going through potential difference of 5000 V an electron falls in uniform magnetic field. It’s induction is 0.1T and the...

Hi, I realized I didn't understand the physical model of something I know the theory of pretty well. I was considering the real power loss of an AC transmission line I2*R, then I realized that from source to load the electrons in an AC line don't actually move anywhere. (as far as I know) Yet if...

Let us assume that we have an electron belonging to the px orbital. In that case what would be the probability of finding it on the z axis? Would it be zero? My teacher says so, but I think that because we can't predict the boundary where there is 100% possibility of finding an electron, we...

I entered in physicsforums archive search the wildcards "bohmian why electrons don't lose energy atom" but only got one hit that isn't related to it. In Bohmian mechanics, electron is localized and has trajectory.. why can't it lose energy as it rotates around the nucleus? What wildcard words...

Assume that i have a wave function of holes in a solid, can we derive the wave function of electrons? If can then how?

Hello. Electron mobility in plasma is μ = q/m⋅ν, where q, m and ν are charge and mass of electron and electron collisional frequency. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_mobility) And unit of the mobility is m2/V⋅S (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_mobility) According to the...

Hello everyone, How come the electron wave energy states are different for spin -½ and +½ values? What causes this asymmetry?

Hello. The collisional frequency is generally expressed by ν = nt×average of (σv), where nt, σ and v are density of target (atoms or molecules), collisional cross section of target and kinetic velocity of incident particles. σ depends on kinetic energy of incident particles I thought...

Hi, I am trying to work out how the electron would oscillate about a mean position in the plum pudding model. Plum pudding model; -1 electron atom. -Positive charge of ##+e## distributed evenly about the volume of the atom of radius ##R##. -Electron (charge ##-e##) is free to move within the...

Is it right to say that 'modern physics has no deep explanation of the nature of charge' in electrons and protons?

It's mentioned in my book that blackbody radiation can verify the particle nature of electron could anyone explain this to me,please?

Homework Statement Nearly free electron model in a 2D lattice. Consider a divalent 2D metal with a square lattice and one atom per primitive lattice cell. The periodic potential has two Fourier components V10 and V11, corresponding to G = (1,0) and (1,1). Both are negative and mod(V10) >...

Hello everyone! I encountered a problem about the specific heat of electronic gas and I do not understand a formula... so the problem says that experimentally it has been shown that the specific heat of the conduction electrons at constant volume in metals depends on...

Just curious. Any answers would be appreciated. Thanks!

So if energy levels, or eV of electrons, do not change with molecular bonding, how are electrons influencing each other.? In glass, when individual atoms of silicon, sodium, and calcium come together, to form glass, the molecular bonding does not change the energy levels of the electrons for...

Homework Statement consider an electron traveling away from the origin along the x-axis in the xy plane with initial velocity vi= viî. As it passes through the region x = 0 to x = d, the electron experiences acceleration a = axî + ayj, where ax and ay are constants. For the case vi = 1.80 ✕...

I've got a question regarding the magnetic field of an electron, and wheter or not it has some form of "self inductance" or resistance to be put in motion. The magnetic energy per volume is equal to u= 1/2*μ*H2. Say I've got an electron at rest, then the energy of the magnetic field is zero...

Why in Madam Wu experiment more electrons are not in direction of magnetic field? See Fig. Why there is not four electrons in the direction of magnetic field and two in oposite direction?

How is a top gate used to change electron density in 2D semi conductors? I get the principle, you are just shifting the chemical potential by some voltage so that there are more or less electrons in the specific bands. But how is it physically done? Thanks.

Hello everybody, Is there a way to calculate/predict the electron number density of a plasma? Thanks in advance

Using electrical potential energy =1/4πεo Q1Q2/r , a particle further away from nucleus has lower magnitude of energy Using coulomb's law, a particle further away from nucleus experiences weaker attraction, hence less energy is needed to maintain orbit* around that e-shell compared to a...

Using electrical potential energy =1/4πεo Q1Q2/r , a particle further away from nucleus has lower magnitude of energy Using coulomb's law, a particle further away from nucleus experiences weaker attraction, hence less energy is needed to maintain orbit* around that e-shell compared to a...

There seems to be two divided approaches in how the uncertainty principle is explained, but they seem to be explaining two different things. The first, more intuitive explanation of the limits imposed by quantum mechanics goes something like: in order for a measurement to be made, we have to...

Homework Statement Suppose that visible light incident on a diffraction grating with slit distance (space) of $0.01*10^{-3}$ has the first max at the angle of $3.6^{o}$ from the central peak. Suppose electrons can be diffracted with this same grating, which velocity of the electron would create...

Can the Kerr effect have a effect on absorption, and transmission, of the electron.? Also is there any way to make electrons move to higher shell levels, without the electrons getting excited by light, and moving to higher Shell's. Or is light absorption the only way for electrons to move to...

Homework Statement An electron confined in a one-dimensional box is observed, at different times, to have energies of 27 eV , 48 eV , and 75 eV . What is the length of the box? Hint: Assume that the quantum numbers of these energy levels are less than 10. Homework Equations E=h^2n^2/(8mL^2)...

Homework Statement **Question** Is the magnetic field directed into the page or out of the page?Homework Equations Right Hand Rule The Attempt at a Solution My index finger is pointing downwards, and since the magnetic force is towards the right and this is an electron (negative) my thumb...

Good afternoon, I'm doing a research on x-rays machines. I chose the model KL27-0.8-70 (or any oral x-ray machine). I would be very grateful if someone could provide me some technical information as the radiation pattern, the aceleration efectuated on the electrons, and the electric field...

Homework Statement Find the ##Q## value for electron capture of ##^{196}Au##. Homework Equations ##Q_\epsilon = [m(^AX)-m(^AX')]c^2-B_n## The Attempt at a Solution How do I know if I have an ##K##- or ##L##-shell for the electron? Assuming I have an ##K## shell taking ##B_n = \; ^{196m1}Au##...

Homework Statement What electron current is driven through a 1.4-mm-diameter iron wire by a 0.070 V/m electric field? The mean time between collisions in iron is 5.2×10^−15s . A=1.5*10^-6 m^2 ne=8.5*10^28 m^-3 Homework Equations I know I need to use ie = neAVd, but I'm having trouble finding...

I got a question towards kinetic energy and elektrical energy. They always talk about about particle accelerators or devices when talking about transformation of elektrical energy into kinetic energy of elektrons. But do elektrons also have kinetic energy when they are circulating in an...

The electron created and emitted in the beta decay of a proton has an initial velocity close to the speed of light. When I try to calculate, not taking into account relativity, the force needed to accelerate an electron to that velocity over a distance the size of a proton, I get about 45 N...

Some nuclides undergo decay of electron capture or beta plus. Can electron beam with appropriate energy accelerate electron capture beta decay? Same scenario: If I am looking for something, and my friend kindly hands it over to me, then I say thanks, because my seeking time is shorten.

Homework Statement Determine if the electron transitions are "allowed" or "forbidden" using the transition rules: i. 2p→2s ii. 1s→2p iii. 3d→2p iv. 3d→1s v. 4s→2p Homework Equations Δl = ±1, Δml= 0, ±1 E = (-2.18*10-18eV)(1/n12 - 1/n22) The Attempt at a Solution I know iv. is forbidden...

I have heard of many experiments dealing with smashing protons or neutrons, but I've never heard of smashing electrons together! What would be the result of such experiment?

i am trying to understand the magnetocaloric effect from another point of view (besides thermodynamics ) , i know that under the influence of an external field , a zeeman splitting happens , and the electrons will have different levels of energy , those with + 1/2 spin will have a higher energy...

Hello all! I am new to this forum, though I have been lurking for a long time. I intend to fill out my profile and introduce myself, but finals leave me with little time to spare at the moment. I have this final next week and would like to sort this out beforehand, hence the hasty post! Thank...

Homework Statement Consider Comton scattering of a photon by a moving electron. Before the collision the photon has wave length λ and is moving in the +x direction, and the electron is moving in the -x direction with total energy E. The photon and electron collide head-on. After the collision...

Hello there, Id like to estimate how the resistivity due to electron 'collision' with 1st Brillouin zone changes as a function of number of valence electrons in a metal. Say you start with Na, then add some other material with 2 valence electrons instead of 1, then the fermi wavevector will...