dock Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb's_law the distance between electron and proton is very closed. strong interaction and this force have any relative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joigus Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Force doesn't make much sense when dealing with quantum mechanical systems, but if you want to get an idea of the magnitude of the interaction in Newtons, there's a trick you can do. You take the Coulomb force law and substitute the distance r by the Bohr radius. Somebody's made the calculation for us here: https://www.toppr.com/en-es/ask/question/calculate-the-electrostatic-force-of-attraction-between-a-proton-and-an-electron-in-a-hydrogen/ I've roughly checked the calculation and it is correct. About a tenth of a millionth of a Newton. It must be interpreted as an average. The strong force doesn't play any significant role in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernie Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) As has been indicated above, force is not a quantum mechanical quantity; instead, the quantity which should be preferred is the 'potential' (energy), as this doubtlessly exists in both worlds, the classical and the quantum domain. But still there is a paper from Feynman (I think his bachelor thesis!) with a proof that forces can be derived even in the quantum world. If you want to be very accurate you should consider that the distance r between the electron and the proton varies with time. Quantum mechanics tells us, that the electron can be found statistically in the range around the Bohr radius a0; to be exact: the most probable separation is the Bohr radius a0, wheras the mean (average) separation is 1.5 a0. Edited April 2, 2021 by Bernie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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