Contradiction - hyperfinecourse

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March 3, 2025 at 9:44 am #6223

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The contradiction may come from ignoring how the extra charge interacts with the electrons outside the nucleus. We only looked at how it attracts the nucleus, which lowers the energy, but in a real atom, it would also repel nearby electrons and that would shift the energy back up.
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