Home Forums Hyperfine course electric monopole shift expression and physics Describing to a 15-year old child the time-averaged position of an electron

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    Daan Nauwelaerts
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    I would base my answer on the Bohr picture and compare the movement of electrons around the nucleus to the movement of planets around the sun because this is something a 15 year-old is much more familiar with.

    So I would describe the time-averaged position of an electron around the nucleus as a circular path with a constant radius.

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