Re: electron

No. Im not thinking of the Bohr model at all.
If you do a measurement of the electrons position in the Hydrogen atom it is
found where it is predicted to be using the Schrodinger equation.
A lot of the time you find it at the Bohr radius ,sometimes near nucleus.

So Im wondering when a measurement is not done is the electron spinning
around in some unknown classical orbit.This would not contravene anything
directly in QM as far as I can see.
Whether this would be consistent with hydogen spectra and so on Im not sure.
Probably is.
patrick

"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> patrick wrote:
>> Because?
>
> Because you are working with the Bohr model of the atom,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model
> which has several known problems that lead to predictions for
> measurable phenomena that are incompatible with actual measurements.
>
> The Bohr model was an intermediate step, an effort to accomodate
> Rutherford's data on the nuclear atom and the observed line spectra of
> hydrogen.
> It was also a failure, and made the development of another model
> necessary.
>
> Only 12 years after its introduction, the Bohr model was successfully
> supplanted by the Schroedinger model in which the bound electron is a
> standing wave.
>
> Schroedinger's solution to the wave equation was elegantly compatible
> with the data, and one only needed to abandon the mental image of the
> bound electron as a point particle. It even accounts for the observed
> chemical bond angles.
>
> Tom Davidson
> Richmond, VA
>
> <snip repost>
>


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