Bohr's atomic model revisited
History and Philosophy of Physics
2021-10-19 v1 Atomic Physics
General Physics
Abstract
Bohr's atomic model, its relationship to the radiation spectrum of the hydrogen atom and the inherent hypotheses are revisited. It is argued that Bohr could have adopted a different approach, focusing his analyzes on the stationary orbit of the electron and its decomposition on two harmonic oscillators and then imposing, as actually he did, Planck's quantization for the oscillators' energies. Some consequences of this procedure are examined.
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@article{arxiv.0806.0652,
title = {Bohr's atomic model revisited},
author = {Francisco Caruso and Vitor Oguri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0652},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages, 1 figure