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Grade 12General Physics

State Bohr’s postulate for the ‘permitted orbits’ for the electron in a hydrogen atom. Use this postulate to prove that the circumference of the nth permitted orbit for the electron can ‘contain’ exactly n wave lengths of the de Broglie wavelength associated with the electron in that orbit.

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According to bohrs second postulate, the electron revolve around the nucleus  only in  those  orbits  for which the angular momentum is some integral multiple of h/2π, where he is planks constant.      Thus the angular momentum of orbiting electrons is L = nh/2π.                                                                        Circumference of electron in nth orbit = n×debrogli wavelength associated with electron