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"Models of the Hydrogen Atom" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Unable to excite n=2 electron in Bohr Model #68

Open Nancy-Salpepi opened 6 days ago

Nancy-Salpepi commented 6 days ago

I'm currently not able to excite the electron in n=2 to a higher energy level in the Bohr model. It looks like a photon of the correct wavelength collides with the electron, but the electron doesn't move to a higher n value.

Discussed this with AR, CM and DT. CM will look into making the collision detection area larger.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a3176078-4f70-45ca-969f-1db65a9c7368

pixelzoom commented 6 days ago

For Bohr, the photon and electron collide if they intersect. See BohrModel collides.

Before I allow them to collide if they are "close enought", I'd like to understand why they are not colliding, and whether it's actually due to failure to collide.

So... notes to self. Things to verify, see BohrModel attemptAbsorption.