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Q 12.16 If Bohr’s quantisation postulate (angular momentum = \frac{nh}{2\pi }) is a basic law of nature, it should be equally valid for the case of planetary motion also. Why then do we never speak of quantisation of orbits of planets around the sun?

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We never speak of Bohr's quantization postulate while studying planetary motion or even motion of other macroscopic objects because they have angular momentum very large relative to the value of h. In fact, their angular momentum is so large as compared to the value of h that the angular momentum of the earth has a quantum number of order 1070 . Therefore the angular momentum of such large objects is taken to be continuous rather than quantized.

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