Re: Another student question

["Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@conncoll.edu>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Martha Takats wrote:

> This isn't another student question, it's another teacher (me)
> question, one that's bugged me for a long time.  I was reminded of it by 
> Dan MacIsaacs e-mail address:
> Why does the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom give the correct answers 
> for energy levels?
> -- 
> Martha Takats
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> Ursinus College
> Collegeville, PA 19426

	My take on this is that the Bohr model starts out with the proper
quantization of the z-component of the orbital angular momentum; namely
 m*hbar.


				Mike Monce
				Connecticut College