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  Session: A Potpurri of Physics and Physics Teaching Ideas
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: Radiation Equilibrium in Bohr's Atom, and the Nucleus Radius
  Meeting: 2014 Summer Meeting: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 2:00PM
  Author: Vic Dannon, Gauge Institute
619-302-7802, vic0@comcast.net
  Co-Author(s): None
  Abstract: Bohr proposed that the electron orbits have angular momentums that are discrete multiples of h-bar. Consequently, the orbits are occupied by standing waves, and no radiation takes place in them. However, radiation by an accelerating charge is a fact of electrodynamics. And Bohr's argument defies experiment, and places the electron-proton atom out of the laws of Electrodynamics. We will assume that the Proton's orbits too, have angular momentums that are discrete multiples of h-bar. And that the energy radiated by the accelerating proton into the electron field equals the energy radiated by the accelerating electron into the proton field. Keeping the orbits energies in a dynamic equilibrium. This allows us to compute the Nucleus Radius of the Electron-Proton Atom. We obtain a radius of the order of 1/10^12
  Footnotes: None
  Presentation: h_vic_dannon_RadiationEquilibriumAAPT.pdf

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