The electrostatic force attracting the electron to the proton depends only on the distance between the two particles.
The simplest atom is hydrogen, consisting of a single proton as the nucleus about which a single electron moves. This picture was called the planetary model, since it pictured the atom as a miniature “solar system” with the electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets orbiting the sun. Use the Rydberg equation to calculate energies of light emitted or absorbed by hydrogen atomsįollowing the work of Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues in the early twentieth century, the picture of atoms consisting of tiny dense nuclei surrounded by lighter and even tinier electrons continually moving about the nucleus was well established.Describe the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom.By the end of this section, you will be able to:
