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Another noob question: Imagine that you could grab two electrons and put them togheter, Can they get so close that they end up being in the same space?
sophiecentaur said:This thread is in danger of turning into a 'top trumps' game. The 'spec's of things like electrons don't really lend themselves to this sort of discussion.
Another noob question: Imagine that you could grab two electrons and put them togheter, Can they get so close that they end up being in the same space?
I'm not sure I'm happy with that; at least I don't recognise it. Shouldn't there be a 1/4πε0 in there for your approximation? That would change the magnitude of things a bit. Or is it the units you're using? I tend to stick to SI for my EM understanding.sankalpmittal said:Energy on an electron ~ e2/r
sophiecentaur said:I'm not sure I'm happy with that; at least I don't recognise it. Shouldn't there be a 1/4πε0 in there for your approximation? That would change the magnitude of things a bit. Or is it the units you're using? I tend to stick to SI for my EM understanding.
Perhaps you could give me a reference.
LoFish said:Another noob question: Imagine that you could grab two electrons and put them togheter, Can they get so close that they end up being in the same space?
sophiecentaur said:"Every sites say that we cannot precisely calculate volume of an electron but , we can say that Energy of an electron of any element at particular radius = -ze2/4πε0r"
that is the energy of the electron in its bound state in an atom - nothing to do with its own 'internal' potential energy. Why would they include z in the formula, otherwise?
MikeyW said:That is not the standard formula, I'd guess that either the tilde is supposed to represent "proportional to", or that they are working in non-SI units.