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A hydrogen atom is in its first excited state (n = 2). Calculate the potential energy of the system.
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1 of 2Only interaction between electron and nucleus (proton), that we are considering, is electrostatic interaction, which can be described as
where is potential energy of the system electron-proton, are charges of electron/proton (they have the same magnitude ) and is distance between electron and nucleus, which is radius of orbit (result (2)). Minus sing in (9) denoted that this system is bound (we would have apply energy to this system in order to break it apart). Therefore, potential energy of the system electron-proton is
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1 of 4Given information
State of the hydrogen atom: ,
We need to calculate the potential energy of the system .
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