On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Xavier Luminous's message of Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:28:25 +0200: > Hi, > [snip] >>This Bohr model picture of the atom is incorrect. Electrons do not >>orbit the nucleus of an atom, so there's no centrifugal force >>component (though they are bound via quantum mechanical principles). >> >>-X > Prove that the Bohr model is not a special solution to the Schrödinger > equation.
Here's an example for starters. An electron has a charge, and an accelerating charge will emit a photon. If an object travels in a circular path, it is accelerating. If the Bohr model was correct, the electrons would emit a burst of photons as they orbited, losing energy and quickly crashing into the nucleus. But of course this doesn't happen, which is one reason why the Bohr model is incorrect and you can't say that electrons orbit an atom. The other easy thing is that the Bohr model doesn't predict the electron cloud density: p- and s-orbitals, etc. Again, electrons don't orbit an atom. There are a lot more problems with the Bohr model, and I wish they'd stop teaching it in school because it gives you a false intuition. -X
