Question

How did de – Broglie modify Bohr’s postulate?

(a) de – Broglie suggested to not take angular momentum into consideration

(b) de – Broglie suggested introducing an electric field near the atom

(c) de – Broglie suggested that electrons behaved like a wave

(d) de – Broglie did not modify Bohr’s second postulate

The question was asked by my college director while I was bunking the class.

My question is taken from DE Broglie’s Explanation of Bohr’s Second Postulate of Quantisation topic in section Atoms of Physics – Class 12

Answer 1

The correct option is (c) de – Broglie suggested that electrons behaved like a wave

The best explanation: de – Broglie hypothesis did modify Bohr’s second postulate. This postulate of Bohr regarding the quantization of the angular momentum of an electron was further explained by Louis de Broglie. According to de – Broglie, a moving electron in its circular orbit behaves like a particle-wave.