• (a) Consider an electron whose position is somewhere in an atom of diameter 1 .What is the uncertainty in the electron's momentum? Is this consistent with the binding energy of electrons in atoms? 
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• (b) Imagine an electron to be somewhere in a nucleus of diameter 10-12 cm. What is the uncertainty in the electron's momentum? Is this consistent with the binding energy of nuclear constituents?
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• (c) Consider now a neutron, or a proton, to be in such a nucleus. What is the uncertainty in the neutron's, or proton's, momentum? Is this consistent with the binding energy of nuclear constituents

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a The uncertainty principle as described by Heisenberg states that the product of the uncertainty in position x and the uncertainty in momentum p of a ... View the full answer