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First ionization energy of two electron atoms calculation is shown on p266 (p292 in the reader app) with a table showing agreement with experiment for many 2-el

• gus_massa 1y ago
  It's very interesting, but I'm still not convinced. It's not 100% agreement, only 99.99% agreement and in many of this experiments the errors are so low that a .01% difference is ruled out. I think it's an interesting method to use a classical model to aproximate atoms, and I surprised that it gives very close results, but I think at the end it's like the Bohr atom, that works in simple cases but fails in the complicated ones. I'll try to think an example where the quantum mechanics effects are big enough to cause a problem.