For the ground state, the electron in the H -atom has an angular momentum 
, according to the simple Bohr model. Angular momentum is a vector and hence there will be infinitely many orbits with the vector pointing in all possible directions. In reality, this is not true:
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In the simple Bohr model, only the magnitude of angular momentum is kept equal to some integral multiple of 
, where, 
is Planck's constant and thus, the Bohr model gives incorrect values of angular momentum.
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