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State the postulate of Bohr theory

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Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom is based on three postulates:

1) An electron moves around the nucleus in a circular orbit,

2) An electron's angular momentum in the orbit is quantised,

3) The change in an electron's energy as it makes a quantum jump from one orbit to another is always accompanied by the emission or absorption of a photon. Bohr's model is semi-classical because it combines the classical concept of electron orbit (postulate 1) with the new concept of quantisation ( postulates 2 and ).

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