Reference no: EM13960626

(a) Show that in the Bohr model, the frequency of revolution of an electron in its circular orbit around a stationary hydrogen nucleus is f = me4/4µ02n3h3.

(b) In classical physics, the frequency of revolution of the electron is equal to the frequency of the radiation that it emits. Show that when n is very large, the frequency of revolution does indeed equal the radiated frequency calculated from Eq. (38.6) for a transition from n1 = n + 1 to n2 = n. (This illustrates Bohr's correspondence principle, which is often used as a check on quantum calculations. When n is small, quantum physics gives results that are very different from those of classical physics. When n is large, the differences are not significant, and the two methods then "correspond." In fact, when Bohr first tackled the hydrogen atom problem, he sought to determine f as a function of n such that it would correspond to classical results for large n.)