Posted by Will on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 10:53am.
1. I will be happy to critique your thinking.
2. As I stated previously, Bohr had no idea of matter waves existing. If your teacher or text is teaching that, it is nonsense. Disregard that idea.
Bohr had no idea why the energy levels were discrete. Bohr just postulated the electrons could be in only discrete levels. It was Louie DeBroglie in the late 1920's who assumed electrons were matter waves, and he demostrated that solutions to the wave equation yielded solutions which predicted Bohr's energy levels. Bohr's model predicted only the Hydrogen spectra well, but DeBroglie's model explained the rest very well.
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