Bohr's Model of the Atom

Author:K L Chugh
11th West Bengal Board
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Important Questions on Bohr's Model of the Atom

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Are different energy levels equally spaced or can we compare the energy levels with the steps of equally spaced ladder?

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Why the energy of electron in an atom is negative ?

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Why are Bohr's orbits called stationary states?

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Show that the circumference of the Bohr orbit for the hydrogen atom is an integral multiple of the de-Broglie wavelength associated with the electron revolution around the orbit.

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What is the fundamental difference between the Rutherford's model and Bohr's model?

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What is quantisation? How does it arise in Bohr's model of the atom?

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In what respect Bohr's model is an improvement over Rutherford's model ?

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Describe how the line spectrum of hydrogen led to Bohr's model.

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Which of the following ions does not obey the Bohr's atomic theory? 

He+, Li+2, B+3, Be+3

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State two limitations of Bohr's theory of hydrogen atom.

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Give an example of an ion which obey's Bohr's theory.

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Describe briefly how atomic spectra of solid and gaseous elements are produced? What is meant by discontinuous spectra? What are Lyman series in the spectra of hydrogen?

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Of atomic theories of Rutherford and Bohr, which one can explain the line spectrum of hydrogen atom ?

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When electrons from higher orbits of hydrogen atom jump to the L-shell, to which series of the hydrogen spectrum will the emitted light belong?

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Bohr theory is not applicable to which of the following species?

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The radius of Bohr's first orbit in hydrogen atom is 0.053 nm. The radius of second orbit in He+ would be: