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Problem 2.20. Suppose you were to shrink Figure2.7until the entire horizontal scale fits on the page. How wide would the peak be?

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Fraction of the total width of the graph is around the hydrogen atom

110-12m

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01

Distance between the two points

Schroeder shows thatbecomes, near the peak:

=maxe-N2xq2

which is a Gaussian curve. The width can be defined as the distance in xbetween the points where the curve is 1eof its maximum value, so:

maxe=maxe-N2xq2

e1=eN2xq2

1=N2xq2

x=q2N

so the width of the curve is twice this, or:

x=qN

02

Peak is a fraction

Since we're assumingq>>N, this width is still a large number, but since the total width of the graph is q+1, the width of the peak as a fraction of the total width of the graph is around:

q(q+1)N1N

which for any macroscopic value of N, is vanishingly small. For example, if Nis on the order of 1020, and we drew the graph so that the total width of the graph fits on a page 10cmwide, , the width of the central peak is around:

1010-3m1020=110-12m

which is about frac1120the size of a hydrogen atom.

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