CHEM 110 Lecture 3: LECTURE #3 - CHEM 110

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Ian Sydney Butler, Pallavi Sirjoosingh

Document Summary

The atomic orbital and the probable location of the electron: The electron"s matter-wave occupies the space near the nucleus and is continuously influenced by it. The shrodinger equation is quite complex but can be represented in simpler form as: Where e is the energy of the atom. the symbol is called a wave function (atomic orbital), a mathematical description of the electron"s matter-wave in three dimensions. H is the hamiltonian operator represents a set of mathematical operations that yield one of the allowed energy states of the atom. An orbital and orbit are two distinct ideas. An orbit was a circular electron level as stated by bohr, yet an orbital is a mathematical function that describe the electron"s matter-wave (the 3d space in which the highest probability exists of finding an electron. Wave function: : mathematical function whose values vary with position (not a one dimensional space)