Atomic Structure

Bohr radius as a hard boundary

What goes wrong

Treats the Bohr radius as a rigid outer boundary for the electron rather than the radius of maximum probability density.

Next time

Treat a0a_0 as the radius of maximum radial probability density for the 1s1s orbital, and remember the electron's wavefunction extends continuously all the way to infinity.

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