Why do atoms generally look like mini solar systems?
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The simplest reasonable model of the atom is the Bohr model, which does tend to look like a mini solar system. In actuality, atomic structure is not so easy to define. The further you advance in chemistry, the more complex the models become, and the less they look like "mini solar systems". But they are still only reasonable attempts to visualize a very complex system, and cannot physically confine all the expected paths of the electrons' orbits.
electrons don't do perfect circles around the nucleus as the planets do around the sun... electrons do "spheric" rotations around the nucleus and planets do "circular" rotations. But why they look like this? I guess because that's how us, humans, got to understand it... we might be all wrong!
Just like gravity and gravitational pull cause the planets to orbit in circular types of orbits, so do electrons around a nucleus.
One doesn't know if the orbit around a body in space is truly elliptical or if it is also spherical - enough time may not have elapsed to show whether this occurs or not.
Either way, it is simply gravitational pull and/or equal attraction/repulsion that causes the two to be similar.
I think that's just the way we draw them, not what they actually look like...
Electrons don't follow orbits such as the earth does around the sun. instead the electron is able to occupy any point within a certain area around the nucleus. Although the probability of it occupying certain points within this area are different to it occupying others. Electron orbits as you have clearly learnt are used because they are a convenient simplification. If you continue studying chemistry or physics to a higher level then you will encounter the more detailed, and more accurate versions.
i think elelctrons orbits around a nucleus in the form of a wave for which strodinger gave the equation of that wave.
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