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Q.Determine the maximum angular speed of an electron moving in a stable orbit around the nucleus of hydrogen atom.
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Angular speed is . Using the Bohr-model results and , the angular speed is . Since falls off as , it is LARGEST at the smallest allowed value of n, which is n=1 (the ground state) -- there is no smaller, faster orbit available; the electron simply cannot occupy n=0. For hydrogen (Z=1), the ground-state orbit has m/s and m, giving rad/s -- this is the maximum angular speed any electron can have in a stable orbit of a hydrogen atom. [!ANSWER] Maximum angular speed occurs at n = 1 (ground state), rad/s.
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