what is the motion of single electron in an orbit?
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hey human.
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the motion of an electron in an orbit is in uniform circular motion.
an orbital can have atleast 2 electrons which spin in opposite directions.
the spin can actually be +1/2 or -1/2 in orbital.
you can take either of them but mostly +1/2 is written.
they have different spins so that they can counter balance each other.
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but it isn't regular and travels in wave form at the same time as well as if vibrating.
what i mean to say is the electron is negatively charged and it might run into the nucleus because it has got protons which have positive charge.
That does not happen.
we could solve this issue by arrival of quantum mechanics.
actually the electron is quantum wavefunction. Let's understand what i mean by that.
electrons move in a circular path BUT NOT ALL OF THE PATHS LIE IN SAME PLANE. Which is the reason why atom appears to be a spherical ball what contributes to this is the speed of electron which is certainly high.
Moreover, the electrons keep on vibrating while moving along an orbit but still they have their properties such as mass.
Now i want you to just forget that there is something called an orbit.
We come to orbital. It is the point where the chances of finding an electron is high. If you think deeply, you may notice that the orbital can be the home of an electron and it can move ( vibrate ) there without coming out of it until energy is used to knock it off.
well The motion of electron is 3 dimentional in an orbital so an orbital is sometimes called *electron* (But It Is Not The Electron.)
The electron has its own velocity with which it moves just like a satellite such that it balances the force of nucleus. So, it moves in circular path just like a satellite..!!
Being highly charged and also being attracted to nucleus it has got to release it's energy every now and then. It vibrates as if gaining potential energy at one point and releasing kinetic energy at the other.
the more the frequency of electron the more is the energy in electron.
what if the elenergy just becomes zero when electron stops vibrating?
the electron is now of no use to the atom so, it is attracted by the nucleus.
( electron capture )
it then combines with a proton and makes a neutron.
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