1plz forgive me if my questions are appearing silly..........
sommerfield explained the drawback of spliiting of lines when resolved , of bohr by saying that the orbits are elliptical .
but what is the necessity that the lines need to have futher futher splittings in elliptical orbits?
plz explain how somm. met this drawback.............
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1ok then i'll leave it off........
i read it in jd lees inorganic book
and i was not able to understand......
11Exp -: Bohr said that when an electron transitioned from a fixed energy level to another the difference in energy would come out as a radiation of fixed frequency...... But however further resolution of the lines revealed that the observed frequency of the emitted radiation varied slightly for each pair of bohr energy levels ---> therfore indicating the presence of a sort of energy sublevel...This observation was explained by sommerfeild ... He said that corresponding to a particular principle quantum number many orbits of varying ellipcity were possible and the nucleus was situated at the focus ........And therefore the motion of an electron describing an elliptical path was described by two quantum numbers 1) Radical quantum number nR 2) Azimuthal quantum number k and now princuple quantum number (n)= nR + k this explained the fine lines observed in the spectrum..... So now E= -2(pi)2 z2 k2 e4 m/(nR+k)2h2
Although the above mentioned doubt required explanation which might be beyond the syllabus it is still v interesting.