We should teach our best guess that comes the closest to the truth, simplify where necessary but only simplify by ommision never simplify by substitution. What's wrong with ONLY teaching the truth? We get irritated at the media every day for their lies, why do teachers get a pass? I understand there isn't necessarily time to go into every detail, I understand that younger minds have a harder time learning all the bits, I understand that some stuff simply must be left out to be learned later if the student wishes to go in that direction. But what I refuse to understand, what I think is a blight on our nation's youth AND adults, is making stuff up and pretending it's simplification, that's not simplification that's BS, and BS has no place in education until it becomes letters after someone's name.
It's not made up. It is the Bohr model and it worked well for ages. In fact, it still works. I have done many a calculation in my career using this simplified model.
Which year did you finally understand the derivation of the Schrodinger Wave Equation?