About 100 years ago JJ Thomson was trying to figure out a

Last updated: 6/21/2023

About 100 years ago JJ Thomson was trying to figure out a stable model of an atom In the process be posed a problem which has since then been known as Thomoson s problem Given a rigid hollow sphere of radius R we want to put in N electrons inside so that the potential energy of system is minimum For N 2 the solution is obvious Electrons should be at the ends of the diameter For N 3 4 5 the problem is solved and the solution is shown here For a general N the problem has not been solved till date 26 N 3 A 6 5 vertices of equilateral triangle How much extra work has to be done to increase N from N 3 to N 4 OLE vertices of a regular tetrahedron N 4 B 3 2 ke SSROOM D None of these