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Science > Physics |
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"DARTH VADER" |
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08 Sep 2005 08:35:54 AM |
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Wave or Particle |
1.Is electron a wave or a particle or both?
2.How do you explain its existance in an atom?
3.Why is'nt a hydrogen atom a electric dipole?
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: Wave or Particle |
08 Sep 2005 11:45:54 AM |
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DARTH VADER wrote:
1.Is electron a wave or a particle or both?
Depends how you look,
http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/matterwave/c60/
2.How do you explain its existance in an atom?
How do you contradict its existence in an atom?
3.Why is'nt a hydrogen atom a electric dipole?
Spherical symmetry of the 1s orbital.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Wave or Particle |
08 Sep 2005 11:50:17 AM |
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2.How do you explain its existance in an atom?
How (and why) do you explain your own existence?
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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08 Sep 2005 09:03:50 AM |
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DARTH VADER wrote:
1.Is electron a wave or a particle or both?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-particle_duality
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| User: "PD" |
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08 Sep 2005 10:23:39 AM |
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DARTH VADER wrote:
1.Is electron a wave or a particle or both?
Neither. An electron is an electron, which happens to exhibit both
particle and wave properties? What is a US quarter? Is it a president
with wings and talons? Or an eagle that has held elective office?
2.How do you explain its existance in an atom?
It's a bound state between two oppositely charged objects, one of which
happens to be a lot heavier than the other. Does there seem to be
something unnatural about that?
3.Why is'nt a hydrogen atom a electric dipole?
It often is. Consider the H atom in HCl. It is in the Starck effect (a
hydrogen atom in an applied electric field). Just because it is
alignable doesn't mean that it is always aligned, anymore than a piece
of iron is always magnetized.
PD
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| User: "EDJO" |
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| Title: Re: Wave or Particle |
08 Sep 2005 08:39:20 AM |
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Hello, DARTH!
You wrote on 8 Sep 2005 06:35:54 -0700:
DV> 1.Is electron a wave or a particle or both?
No. It's a spiramant.
DV> 2.How do you explain its existance in an atom?
You can't. Nothing is certain.
DV> 3.Why is'nt a hydrogen atom a electric dipole?
Because it's neutral.
With best regards, EDJO.
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| User: "DARTH VADER" |
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| Title: Re: Wave or Particle |
08 Sep 2005 08:48:27 AM |
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No , i mean a Hydrogen atom has a proton and a electron and they are
seperated by a certain distance ,right! then why dont they constitute a
dipole?
And according to recent discoveries and theories how do you explain
electrons existance in an atom ?
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