The Bohr Theory

We have three equations and four unknowns.

Need some other piece of information or some other relation.

Bohr noted that Planck’s constant, h, had the units of angular momentum: L = mvr

(kg*m2/sec = Joule*sec)

so he tried this: L = nh

(quantize angular momentum).

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