Bohr Atom

The Planetary Model of the Atom

Bohrs Model
Nucleus Electron Orbit

Energy Levels

Bohr Model of Atom

n=3

Increasing energy of orbits

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The Bohr model of the atom, like many ideas in the history of science, was at first prompted by and later partially disproved by experimentation.
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Modelo de Bohr del tomo

n=3

El aumento de la energa De las rbitas

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n=2 n=1

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El modelo de Bohr del tomo, al igual que en muchas de las ideas la historia de la ciencia, en la primera fue motivada por y ms tarde parcialmente desmentida por la experimentacin.
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Development of the Atom

Development of the Atom

Planetary Model

An unsatisfactory model for the hydrogen atom

According to classical physics, light should be emitted as the electron circles the nucleus. A loss of energy would cause the electron to be drawn closer to the nucleus and eventually spiral into it.

Hill, Petrucci, General Chemistry An Integrated Approach 2nd Edition, page 294

Quantum Mechanical Model

Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein

Modern atomic theory describes the electronic structure of the atom as the probability of finding electrons within certain regions of space (orbitals).

Development of Atomic Models

Thomson model

In the nineteenth century, Thomson described In the early twentieth century, Rutherford the atom as a ball of positive charge containing showed that most of an atom's mass is a number of electrons. concentrated in a small, positively charged region called the nucleus.

Rutherford model

Bohr model
After Rutherford's discovery, Bohr proposed Quantum mechanical model that electrons travel in definite orbits around Modern atomic theory described the the nucleus. electronic structure of the atom as the probability of finding electrons within certain regions of space.

Modern View
The atom is mostly empty space Two regions
Nucleus
protons and neutrons

Electron cloud
region where you might find an electron