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The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom Revisited

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The parameters of the original Bohr model of the hydrogen atom are applied in an extension presented for that model. In the first step the quanta of the magnetic field for each of the energy levels of the hydrogen atom are taken into account. A consequence of the presence of these quanta are the quanta of the magnetic flux being for any hydrogen energy state equal to an integer multiple of the flux quantum known from the theory of superconductors. In the second step a model of the electron and proton spin is developed independently of the Dirac's formalism. The model is an effect of modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for energy and time which yields a minimal distance between the particles in an ensemble of each fermions kind. This minimal distance has been next assumed as equal to the radius of circulation of a spinning particle respectively for the electron and proton case, and the speed of the particle is then assumed to be close to that of the speed of light. This model gives proper values for the angular mechanical momentum and the magnetic moment for each of the considered particle kinds. The third application of the developed Bohr model concerns the time of energy emission connected with the electron transitions in the hydrogen atom. If the energy transmitted between two neighbouring quantum levels is considered as a dissipated Joule-Lenz energy, the transmission time between the levels can be calculated in a definite non-probabilistic way. The product of that time and the amount of transmitted energy approaches the Planck constant h for any considered pair of the quantum states.

Keywords: BOHR MODEL OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM; ELECTRON SPIN AND PROTON SPIN IN THE ATOM; QUANTA OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD AND MAGNETIC FLUX; TIME INTERVALS OF ELECTRON TRANSITIONS BETWEEN QUANTUM LEVELS

Document Type: Review Article

Publication date: 01 December 2016

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