What must the diameter of our electron orbital be? Show your work.
By Heisenberg's uncertainty principle we have
are the uncertainty in position and momentum respectively and is the reduced Planck's constant
Given that,
Hence, uncertainty in momentum is given as
Hence, using uncertainty principle we have,
This is the radius of the orbital.
So, diameter o the electron orbital is
This is the diameter of the electron orbital.
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