Timeline for Why do lines in atomic spectra have thickness? (Bohr's Model)
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| Nov 30, 2019 at 3:05 | comment | added | Timothy | If they had no thickness, that would be much harder to explain. How could the universe work in such a way that a photon will get absorbed if and only if it's a precise frequency? I think the lines are thin because the fine structure constant is small. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | user213887 | I don't think the Bohr model can solve for this, but see this answer for the modern QM physics.stackexchange.com/questions/443054/… | |
| Mar 30, 2015 at 3:48 | vote | accept | Gerard | ||
| Mar 29, 2015 at 22:01 | history | protected | Qmechanic♦ | ||
| Mar 29, 2015 at 22:01 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 18:55 | answer | added | Marty Green | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/582218339642159104 | ||
| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:26 | answer | added | bernd | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:26 | answer | added | m0nhawk | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:02 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Bohr's model was a kludge that barely lasted a decade as the model that scientists actually used. It's still taught, not because it is right but because (a) it's easy and (b) it is a stepping stone to a better theory. With emphasis on the easy part. This question was never tackled in it. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:01 | comment | added | m0nhawk | Talking about Bohr model: I don't think it's explain it at all; in modern theories the thickness of absorption/emitting lines due to the uncertainty principle (the one about time-energy). And this was discovered far later than the Bohr model. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 15:58 | history | edited | Gerard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 15:41 | history | asked | Gerard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |