Consider the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom for which an electron in the ground state executes uniform circular motion about a stationary proton at radius a0. (a) Find an expression for the kinetic energy of the electron in the ground state. (b) Find an expression for the potential energy of the electron in the ground state. (c) Find an expression for the ionization energy of an electron from the ground state of the hydrogen atom. The ionization energy is the energy required to remove the electron from the ground state to a position very far from the proton so that it has no kinetic energy. Using numerial values from the text, show that the it requires 13.6 eV to ionize an electron from the ground state of H.
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