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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
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2016
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S3
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3
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2
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2026-10-25
A
classically accelerating
Coulomb
electron
radiates and loses
orbital energy
, so
a
stable nonradiating
orbit
is impossible within that unmodified theory. Bohr instead postulates stationary nonradiating
orbits
, quantized
angular momentum
μv
r
=
n
ℏ
and
photon emission
/absorption with
h
ν
=
E
i
−
E
f
. Here
μ
=
m
e
M
/
(
m
e
+
M
)
describes
relative motion
. The
angular-momentum
condition is the
standing-wave
relation
2
π
r
=
n
λ
dB
for the relative
orbit
. These are additional
quantum
postulates, not consequences of classical
radiation
theory.
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