Why was the discovery of calculating how fast an electron moves in, lets say a hydrogen atom, an important discovery?
I’ve written a paper explaining the background and calculations for determining the velocity of an electron. In my conclusion I went to explain the importance of such a calculation and I was dumbfounded when I realized I couldn’t think of anything. When I took that question to google, I couldn’t find anything either so here I am.
I’m curious myself, the calculation was very ingenious, but what did it allow? What came of it? Does it have any application today?
In: Physics
Sorry to be pedantic, but what do you mean by the speed of an electron? Is it the speed it zips around probability fields, the speed it drifts through materials when a field is applied, or the speed of the electric field itself?
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