Talk:This Quantum World/Serious illnesses/de Broglie

in the first sentence, should "atom's" be replaced by "electron's"? --Tom Bachmann 16:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We tend to speak of the angular momentum quantum number of the hydrogen atom rather than of the electron. Is what we loosely call "the Moon's orbital angular momentum" actually a property of the Moon or rather a property of the Earth-Moon system? If we take into account that both the Earth and the Moon orbit a common center of gravity, it should become clear that it's a property of the Earth-Moon system. As long as we think of the proton as (the source of) an unchanging potential well in which the electron is moving, we may of course attribute the angular momentum to the electron instead.--Koantum 02:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for the clarification. --Tom Bachmann 11:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)