Comments on: The Bohr Atom http://www.talkingscience.org/2009/04/the-bohr-atom/ TalkingScience is a non-profit organization focus on educating the general public on science through new media. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:11:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: drv http://www.talkingscience.org/2009/04/the-bohr-atom/comment-page-1/#comment-35470 drv Mon, 10 May 2010 15:24:52 +0000 http://talkingscience.org/blogs/?p=1696#comment-35470 There are various flaws in the supposed model of the Bohr atom as it is pictured. There is only one electron and one proton in the hydrogen atom, whereas many are shown. In the Bohr model, the one electron rotates around the proton in a circular orbit. That leads to his derivation of the stable states. What is more important is that the radius of the Bohr atom is proportional to the square of the state number, while the energy level is simiarly inversely proportional to the state number. Therefore, the size of the Bohr atom is unlimited, which is a direct conflict to measurements. Bohr himself admitted that his model is "abstract". This problem led to the present Quantum Mechanics energy model of the atom in which the radius is undefined but limited to a range of values. This problem has recently been solved. See www.science-site.ScientificBreakthrough.htm . There are various flaws in the supposed model of the Bohr atom as it is pictured. There is only one electron and one proton in the hydrogen atom, whereas many are shown. In the Bohr model, the one electron rotates around the proton in a circular orbit. That leads to his derivation of the stable states.

What is more important is that the radius of the Bohr atom is proportional to the square of the state number, while the energy level is simiarly inversely proportional to the state number. Therefore, the size of the Bohr atom is unlimited, which is a direct conflict to measurements. Bohr himself admitted that his model is “abstract”. This problem led to the present Quantum Mechanics energy model of the atom in which the radius is undefined but limited to a range of values.

This problem has recently been solved. See http://www.science-site.ScientificBreakthrough.htm .

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