Regarded as one of the greatest discoveries, Niels Bohr’s original quantum theory of spectra was one of the most revolutionary and successful theory of atomic dynamics.
Both Thomson and Rutherford recognized that the electrons must revolve about the nucleus in … Read More
Though quantum mechanics is a dynamical theory much like Newtonian mechanics, there are key differences between the two. In Newton’s mechanics, the state of a particle at t = 0 is specified by giving its initial position x (0) and … Read More
While the existence of the photoelectric effect can be understood within the framework of classical electromagnetic theory since it was known that there were electrons in metals and one could envisage them to be accelerated by absorption of radiation, the … Read More
