PASCO scientific1 has designed a vibration apparatus that includes a mechanical driver used to excite vibrations in various systems. One of these is a circular wire loop, which PASCO suggests can be used as a visual representation of the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom. In this paper we investigate the similarity between the wire loop and the Bohr atom.
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