Question #156504

What is energy of H atom.


Expert's answer

The motion of the electron is not free. The electron is bound to the atom by the attractive force of the nucleus and consequently quantum mechanics predicts that the total energy of the electron is quantized. The expression for the energy is:


En=2π2me4z2n2h2E_n=-\frac{2\pi^2 me^4z^2}{n^2h^2}

where m is the mass of the electron, e is the magnitude of the electronic charge, n is a quantum number, h is Planck's constant and Z is the atomic number (the number of positive charges in the nucleus).


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