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Electron motion in the plum pudding model
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[QUOTE="jtbell, post: 5495845, member: 20524"] Are you familiar with Gauss's Law? If you assume the "pudding" is a sphere with uniform (positive) charge density, you can use Gauss's Law to show that the electric field inside the sphere, a distance r from the center, is proportional to r. The direction of the field is away from the center. Therefore the force on an electron at distance r from the center is also proportional to r, and directed towards the center. [/QUOTE]
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