Sentences with phrase «elliptical electron orbits»
Sommerfeld showed how to extend quantum ideas from circular to elliptical electron orbits, making him kind of like a Kepler to Bohr's Copernicus.
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The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.