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The Bohr model of atoms

Asked in CBSE AIPMT 2004 · Postulates, radius, speed and angular momentum

Answer: (1) assumes that the angular momentum of electrons is quantised

Step-by-step solution

Idea: Bohr's central postulate is that only orbits with quantised angular momentum are allowed.

The condition is mvr=(nh)/(2π), with n a positive integer.

Everything else in the model follows from it: the discrete radii, the discrete energies, and so the line spectrum.

So the assumption the model rests on is the quantisation of angular momentum.

Why the other options are wrong

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