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 and photon emission/absorption with . Here describes relative motion. The angular-momentum condition is the standing-wave relation for the relative orbit. These are additional quantum postulates, not consequences of classical radiation theory.

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