Electromagnetic radiation is made when an atom absorbs energy. The absorbed energy causes one or more electrons to change their locale within the atom. When the electron returns to its original position, an electromagnetic wave is produced. These electrons in these atoms are then in a high energy state.

First of all the electrons revolve around the nucleus in specific orbitals in which it doesn’t radiate any energy…. The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force. So there is no need to spend energy to keep on moving, unless external forces are acting on the body.

the electron is not stationary. Only the energy asspciated with it is stationary.

Bohr proposed that electrons do not radiate energy as they orbit the nucleus, but exist in states of constant energy which he called stationary states. This means that the electrons orbit at fixed distances from the nucleus (see Figure below).

A stationary state is called stationary because the system remains in the same state as time elapses, in every observable way. For a single-particle Hamiltonian, this means that the particle has a constant probability distribution for its position, its velocity, its spin, etc.

A stationary state is one in which growth is neither positive nor negative. Until John Stuart Mill, the stationary state was, like the declining state, considered unwelcome, and growth was thought to benefit all three great classes of society: capitalists, landlords, and workers.

phase factor cannot influence the outcome of an observation, from an experimental perspective, energy eigenstates do not change with time. It is therefore termed a “stationary state”.

Some stationary states have non-zero momentum, for example, all the stationary states of H = p^2 + V with V = 0. Of course, these are not bound states. If you would like to focus on bound states then there are several ways you might proceed.

I would like to see a further and more related explanation for which a non-normalisable wave function implies that a free particle cannot exists in a stationary state and also that such a free particle does not have a definite energy.

As an extreme case, in a stationary state σH = 0 (the returns of energy measurements are always the same), and therefore ∆t = ¥, that is, the expectation values are constant. Conversely, if ∆t is small (the system changes rapidly), thenσH must be large.

A Free Particle. A free particle is not subjected to any forces, its potential energy is constant. Set U(r,t) = 0, since the origin of the potential energy may be chosen arbitrarily.

Bohr orbitals are called stationary orbitals because the electron which is moving in an orbital does not lose or radiate energy.

According to Bohr model of hydrogen atom, the electron in the hydrogen atom can move around the nucleus in a circular path of fixed radius and energy. These paths are called orbits or stationary states or allowed energy states.

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Ground state is the state when an electron is inactive. Excited state is the state when an electron becomes excited after receiving energy.

Ground state means the lowest energy state. When the electrons absorb energy and jump to outer orbits, this state is called excited state.

2 Answers. The main problem with Bohr’s model is that it works very well for atoms with only one electron, like H or He+, but not at all for multi-electron atoms. Bohr’s model breaks down when applied to multi-electron atoms. It does not account for sublevels (s,p,d,f), orbitals or elecrtron spin.

But there was good evidence he was right: the electrons in his model lined up with the regular patterns (spectral series) of light emitted by real hydrogen atoms. Bohr’s theory that electrons existed in set orbits around the nucleus was the key to the periodic repetition of properties of the elements.

There are no wave function solutions that are in between two energy levels, which means the electron can never be found there – or more correctly the electron can never have that energy. Electrons belonging to a specific atom cannot leave their shells or orbits and ‘go for a walk in the park’ between the orbits.

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Rutherford’s experiment showed the existence of a nuclear atom – a small, positively-charged nucleus surrounded by empty space and then a layer of electrons to form the outside of the atom. Most of the alpha particles did pass straight through the foil. The atom being mostly empty space.

The Bohr Model is very limited in terms of size. Poor spectral predictions are obtained when larger atoms are in question. It cannot predict the relative intensities of spectral lines. It does not explain the Zeeman Effect, when the spectral line is split into several components in the presence of a magnetic field.

Bohr’s improvement of the Rutherford model was that Bohr placed the electrons in distinct energy levels. Rutherford described the atom as consisting of a tiny positive mass surrounded by a cloud of negative electrons. Bohr thought that electrons orbited the nucleus in quantised orbits.