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7.4 Exercise 5

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Assume that an electron in an atom can be treated as if it were confined to a box of width 2.0 Å2 .\text{0}\textrm{ }\mathring{A}. What is the ground state energy of the electron? Compare your result to the ground state kinetic energy of the hydrogen atom in the Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom.

OpenStax University Physics Volume 3, 7.4 The Quantum Particle in a Box, exercise 5

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