Calculating Electric Potential Energy of Hydrogen Atom in Bohr Model

[GreenLantern674]

How do you find the electric potential energy of a hydrogen atom using the Bohr model? I tried doing U_E = K(q1)(q2)/r, using the charge of an electron and the charge of a proton for q1 and q2 and using the Bohr radius for r, but that didn't work. How do you do this? (P.S. the answer has to be in electron volts)

 

[rl.bhat]

Show your calculations with numerical values.

 

[GreenLantern674]

Ue = (9.0e9) (1.6e-19)(-1.6e-19) / (5.29e-11)

 

[rl.bhat]

To convert it into eV divide it by 1.6e-19.