Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: Binary stars

At 04:38 PM 12/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
As I recall there were no dipoles in the semi-classical
(Bohr, 1913) model of orbiting. All orbits are circular,
but only those orbits for which the angular momentum
is an integer of h_bar are allowed. Wasn't the model
with several L, for a given n, introduced later?


Yes. By Sommerfeld.
Closer is the value of the azimuthal quantum number l
to the prinicipal quantum nuber n, more circular is the orbit.

regards,

sarma.