Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Physics

Chapter

Atoms

Question:

In the Bohr model of a hydrogen atom, the centripetal force is furnished by the coulomb attraction between the proton and the electron. If a0 is the radius of the ground state orbit, m is the mass, e is the charge on the electron and ε0 is the vacuum permittivity, the speed of the electron is

Options:

0

$\frac{e}{\sqrt{\varepsilon_0 a_0 m}}$

$\frac{e}{\sqrt{4 \pi \varepsilon_0 a_0 m}}$

$\frac{\sqrt{4 \pi \varepsilon_0 a_0 m}}{e}$

Correct Answer:

$\frac{e}{\sqrt{4 \pi \varepsilon_0 a_0 m}}$

Explanation:

$\frac{m v^2}{a_0}=\frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_0} \frac{e^2}{a_0^2} \Rightarrow v=\frac{e}{\sqrt{4 \pi \varepsilon_0 a_0 m}}$