The reasons which make Bohr’s model
still useful are:
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(i)
The model is based on just three postulates but accounts for almost
all the general features of the hydrogen spectrum (ii) The model incorporates many of the concepts we have learnt in
classical physics (iii) The model demonstrates how a theoretical physicist occasionally
must quite literally ignore certain problems of approach in hopes
of being able to make some predictions If the predictions of the
theory or model agree with experiment, a theoretician then must
somehow hope to explain away or rationalise the problems that
were ignored along the way