Re: electron elliptical orbital - what's the proof?

ica wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any experimental proof that electron orbital
> can become elliptical contributing to certain spectral
> lines, or did Sommerfeld just assume it does and all of
> the physicists just follow his explanations?

You'd better stop reading those old Dover reprints of
antiquated physics monographs, and pick up a good modern
textbook. Sommerfeld's proposal of elliptical orbits
in 1916 were a temporary kludge on the way to the
development of modern QM.

Jerry

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