Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... model lined up with the regular patterns (spectral series) of light emitted by real hydrogen atoms. Bohr's theory that electrons ...

Question 3: State and derive the expression for the energy of an electron in the nth orbit of a hydrogen atom. Question 4: Explain the spectral series of the hydrogen atom (Lyman, Balmer ...

The model had successfully explained the spectrum of the hydrogen atom — consisting of just one proton and one electron — and the splitting of spectral ... Born had made a series of detailed ...