{"id":300,"date":"2010-12-23T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2010-12-23T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:15:11","slug":"electron-orbitals-and-the-lorentz-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/electron-orbitals-and-the-lorentz-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Electron Orbitals and the Lorentz Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an electron in an atomic orbital the magnetic part of the Lorentz force [1], F = q[E + (v x B)], deflects the electron\u2019s path so that the electron cannot head directly toward the nucleus.\u00a0 Magnetic fields produced by the nucleus essentially fight off the electron\u2019s direct path which is due to the electrostatic part of the force.\u00a0 This is one of the aids in assuring that atomic collapse does not occur.\u00a0 In the vicinity of an electron orbital turn where gravitons are emitted from an electron, a planar electron arc can be assumed [2], however this is only in the tangential limit relatively far from the nucleus and there are no complete arcs in electron orbitals that are geometrically planar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorentz_force\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lorentz_force<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/spread-of-a-fermion-wave-function\/\">https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/spread-of-a-fermion-wave-function\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an electron in an atomic orbital the magnetic part of the Lorentz force [1], F = q[E + (v x B)], deflects the electron\u2019s path so that the electron cannot head directly toward the nucleus.\u00a0 Magnetic fields produced by the nucleus essentially fight off the electron\u2019s direct path which is due to the electrostatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical-electrodynamics","category-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}