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An early model of the atomic structure of a chemical element was that the atom was a spher...

An early model of the atomic structure of a chemical element was that the atom was a spherical cloud of uniformly distributed positive charge Ne, where N is the atomic number and e is the magnitude of electronic charge. Electrons, each carrying a negative charge -e, were considered to be imbedded in the cloud. Assuming the spherical charge cloud to have a radius R0 and neglecting collision effects,

a) find the force experienced by an imbedded electron at a distance r from the center;


b) describe the motion of the electron;


c) explain why this atomic model is unsatisfactory.

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