Reply to comment on ‘looking back into Bohr's atom’

Jes Madsen

Subhankar Ray, J. Shamanna

It is shown that, in the article 'Looking back into Bohr's atom', Bhattacharyya (2006 Eur. J. Phys. 27 497–500) has made several redundant assumptions for arriving at rather restrictive results. The article also uses certain approximations, which do not follow from the assumptions made therein.

Bibhas Bhattacharyya

The present work reconsiders Bohr's theory of hydrogenic atoms from a different point of view. Instead of the traditional approach based on the balancing of forces acting on the electron, this work takes up the correspondence principle as a starting point for calculation of the electronic energy levels.

Hans Halvorson, Rob Clifton

H. Rauch, Jean Pierre Vigier

Yalçin Koç