What is the path called that a electron takes around a nucleus?

Question

My mom and I are betting (say orbit plz)

Answer 1

You are right .

Electrons revolve around the nucleus in specific paths called orbits. the term shell is more correct because these shells(orbits) are further made of sub orbits. Sir Rutherford found out that electrons revolve round the nucleus . But it was Sir Neils Bohr who explained this concept more clearly. It was Sir Somerfeld who proved the existence of suborbits.

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Answer 2

The path is an orbit, but not necessarily a simple or regular one. Its movement is also affected by the other electrons in the same shell and adjacent shells. In a covalent-bonded molecule, some electrons orbit more than one nucleus.

What does your mom say? If she says a cloud, she's thinking quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says you can accurately know the position or the momentum of an electron, but not both. So the most accurate way to represent the orbit is with a probability density over a volume. It's still an orbit, we just can't observe it with precision.

Answer 3

Electron Path

Answer 4

Ahhh difficult question. Quantum mechanics has a problem in that the wavefunction does not correspond to any measurable physical quantity and we do not understand how a particle can be a particle and a wave at the same time. There are several interpretations of what is happening - I beleive the predominant one today is to view the electron to be simultaneously existing in all possible places at the same time and the square of the wavefunction corresponds to the probability of it being at any particular point - we can think of it as the electron being spread over a three dimensional volume of space (the orbital) like a cloud, and the probabilities are better thought of as the density of the electron in that region of space.

Answer 5

The electron orbits the nucleous of the atom. since the orbit continually changes, the motion is a 3 dimensional one and follows a probability trajectory =called orbital which is spherical.Therefore, the electron follows a three dimensional orbit relative to the nucleous of the atom,and is termed orbital.

Answer 6

Orbit(Bohr Model)

Answer 7

i believe it is called an orbital path

Answer 8

Orbit, trajectory, etc.

Answer 9

It is Orbit.

Answer 10

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