Physics > Basic Modern Physics > 10.0 Bohr Model of The Hydrogen Atom

  Basic Modern Physics
    1.0 Photon theory of light
    2.0 Characteristics of photon
    3.0 Wave Particle Duality
    4.0 Emission of electrons
    5.0 Photoelectric Effect
    6.0 Radiation Pressure And Force
    7.0 Photon Density
    8.0 Force exerted by a light beam on a surface
    9.0 Early Atomic Structures
    10.0 Bohr Model of The Hydrogen Atom
    11.0 Energy of electron in the $n^{th}$ orbit
    12.0 Basic Definitions
    13.0 Atomic Excitation

10.1 Radius of Orbit
As centripetal force = Force of attraction
$$\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} \frac{{m{v^2}}}{r} = \frac{1}{{4\pi {\varepsilon _0}}}\frac{{(Ze)(e)}}{{{r^2}}}...(i) \\ mvr = \frac{{nh}}{{2\pi }}...(ii) \\\end{aligned} \end{equation} $$
From equation $(ii)$, $$ v = \frac{{nh}}{{2\pi mr}} $$
Substituting the value of $v$ in Eq. $(i)$, we get
$$\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} {r_n} = \frac{{{n^2}{h^2}{\varepsilon _0}}}{{\pi m{e^2}Z}} \\ \Rightarrow {r_n} = (0.53)\frac{{{n^2}}}{Z}\mathop {\text{A}}\limits^0 \\\end{aligned} \end{equation} $$
Clearly, for $H$-like atoms (one electron species) ${r_n} \propto \frac{{{n^2}}}{Z}$.

This also implies that the stationary orbits are not equally spaced.
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