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  • The rule of radius averagin...
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    IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering, 06/2019, Letnik: 546, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    According to quantum mechanics, electrons do not have a fixed position in an atom, and therefore orbitals have no definite radii. However, electrons have characteristic wave functions from which the radius of their orbits can be calculated or averaged. Depending on the average method, there are three most popular expressions for orbital radius, namely the average radius, the root mean square (rms) radius, and the most probable radius. Unfortunately, for hydrogen atom, none of those three radii is equal to the classical radius, even for large principal quantum numbers called the classical regime. Here, by using energy analysis, we propose a harmonic radius and show that the results well agree with the classical radius for each principal and orbital quantum numbers.