Thursday, July 14, 2011

A problem of quantum mechanical model of atom?

The angular momentum of electrons in an orbital is given by square root of l(l+1) where l is the azimuthal quantum number. But for 's' orbital, l=0 so the angular momentum becomes zero. But this would mean that either the velocity of electron is zero or the dist. of electron from nucleus is zero which is impossible. Then why do we get such a result?

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