College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
7B50.15 - Bohr Atom
Pick the appropriate computer simulation for your presentation.
A laser etched crystal is available which has some Bohr atom orbital representations such as those shown in the Grand Orbitals Table on the website listed below.
- Kenneth W. Ford, "Niels Bohr's First 1913 Paper: Still Relevant, Still Exciting, Still Puzzling", TPT, Vol. 56, #8, Nov. 2018, p. 500.
- Ken Ford, "Teaching the Bohr Atom", TPT, Vol. 56, #4, Apr. 2018, p. 196.
- Stefano Oss and Tommaso Rosi, "A Bit of Quantum Mechanics", TPT, Vol. 53, #4, Apr 2015, p. 230.
- Mark B. Schneider, "Quantum Mechanics for Beginning Physics Students", TPT, Vol. 48, #7, Oct. 2010, p. 484.
- Jay M. Pasachoff, "The Bohr Staircase", TPT, Vol. 42, #1, Jan. 2004, p. 38.
- Joseph Y. Pollock, "Fiscal Atomic-Levels Demonstration", TPT, Vol. 42, #1, Jan. 2004, p. 50.
- David Thompson, "Three Everyday Examples of Quantization", TPT, Vol. 36, #2, Feb. 1998, p. 92.
- "Energy in Bohr Orbits", TPT, Vol. 23, #5, May 1985, p. 305.
- Jay M. Pasachoff, "Haystack Radio Telescope", AJP, Vol. 70, #10, Oct. 2002, p. 983.
- Gordon McIntosh. "A Modern Physics Laboratory Activity: Radio Astronomical Observations of Recombination Lines", AJP, Vol. 70, #3, Mar. 2002, p. 285.
- Dmitry Budker, "Electrons in a Shell", AJP, Vol. 66, #7, July 1998, p. 572.
- Frank R. Tangherlini, "Schrödinger’s Radial Equation", Physics Today, Vol. 68, #3, Mar. 2015, p. 8.
- Anatoly Svidzinsky, Marlan Scully, and Dudley Herschbach, "Bohr's Molecular Model and the Melding of Classical and Quantum Mechanics", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #8, Aug. 2014, p. 10.
- Petar Grujic, "Bohr's Molecular Model and the Melding of Classical and Quantum Mechanics", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #8, Aug. 2014, p. 8.
- Leonard Mlodinow, "Bohr's Molecular Model and the Melding of Classical and Quantum Mechanics", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #8, Aug. 2014, p. 8.
- M. Y. Amusia, "Bohr's Molecular Model and the Melding of Classical and Quantum Mechanics", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #8, Aug. 2014, p. 8.
- Anatoly Svidzinsky, Marlan Scully, and Dudley Herschbach, "Bohr's Molecular Model, a Century Later", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #1, Jan. 2014, p. 33.
- "S-105. Banding Mat'l-Corrugated Roof", DICK and RAE Physics Demo Notebook, 1993.
- David Kutliroff, "56. How Empty Is Space in the Microcosm?", 101 Classroom Demonstrations and Experiments For Teaching Physics, p. 125 - 126.
- John G. Cramer, "Watching the Quantum Jump", Analog and Science Fiction/Science Fact Magazine, p. 137 - 141.
- T. D. Rossing and C. J. Chiaverina, "6.5. Atoms", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 134 - 136.
- Bobby Mercer, "Candy Atoms", Junk Drawer Chemistry, 2016, p. 57 - 63.
- Robert Ehrlich, "J.10. Rubbing the Edge of a Wine Glass", Turning the World Inside Out and 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations, p. 135 - 136.
- Sara Stein, "Atomic Poetry", The Science Book, p. 210.
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