PCh9 Lec 5

(4/20/20, bes)

Greetings,

I sent you all an email yesterday to hopefully help alleviate some stress associated with this new online format of teaching. Please read the mail and respond only if you choose to accept this option. It is my hope that all of you are not stressed, have good computing resources, have good internet, are following the posted notes (and are understanding these)...as well as well feed! Online pchem is certainly a challenge, but i feel we will all come out of this stronger!

Before we continue with the last lecture of the chapter, i wanted to discuss the White and Nerdy video shared in the last lecture...yes it is the hydrogen atom Schrodinger equation showing up in pop culture! First, Q: who is the person with Weird Al? ...A: it is click here...and if you wish to see him perform one of his Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tunes , click here.

Back to QM...is this equation correct?

Sec 9.5 Radial Probability Distribution Function

At this point you should be fully aware of the mathematical form of the hydrogen atom wavefunctions (see pages 170-171). It has taken us some time to develop these wavefunctions/eignefunction/orbitals.