Bohr’s
model of the hydrogen atom started from the planetary model,
but he
added one assumption regarding the electrons.
What if the electronic
structure of the atom was quantized? Bohr suggested that the perhaps the
electrons could only orbit the nucleus in specific orbits or shells
with a fixed radius. Only shells with a radius given by the equation
below would be allowed, and the electron could not exist in between
these shells. Mathematically, we could write the allowed values of the
atomic radius as r(n)=n2⋅r(1),
where n is a positive integer, and r(1) is the Bohr radius, the smallest allowed radius for hydrogen.
He found that r(1) has the value
By keeping the electrons in circular, quantized orbits around the positively-charged nucleus, Bohr was able to calculate the energy of an electron in the nth energy level of hydrogen: E(n)=−n21⋅13.6eV, where the lowest possible energy or ground state energy of a hydrogen electron—E(1)—is −13.6eV. Bohr radius=r(1)=0.529×10−10m
Note that the energy is always going to be a negative number, and the ground state, n=1, has the most negative value. This is because the energy of an electron in orbit is relative to the energy of an electron that has been completely separated from its nucleus, n=∞, which is defined to have an energy of 0eV. Since an electron in orbit around the nucleus is more stable than an electron that is infinitely far away from its nucleus, the energy of an electron in orbit is always negative.
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