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Jules18
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Here's the equation I'm dealing with (it describes the energies that an electron in a hydrogen atom can occupy) :
En = -RH(1/n2)
The way I understood, the bigger n was the farther away the e- was from the nucleus, so it would have more potential energy.
But n is in the denominator in this eq'n, so the bigger the n the less energy the electron occupies.
So I'm kinda confused. Help?
~Jules~
En = -RH(1/n2)
The way I understood, the bigger n was the farther away the e- was from the nucleus, so it would have more potential energy.
But n is in the denominator in this eq'n, so the bigger the n the less energy the electron occupies.
So I'm kinda confused. Help?
~Jules~