A hydrogen atom has a radius of about 005 nm estimate the


A hydrogen atom has a radius of about 0.05 nm.

(a) Estimate the uncertainty in any component of the momentum of an electron confined to a region of this size.

kg · m/s

(b) From your answer to (a), estimate the electron's kinetic energy in three dimensions.

eV

(c) Does the estimate have the correct order of magnitude? (The ground-state kinetic energy predicted by the Bohr model is 13.6 eV.)

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