CHEM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Standing Wave, Spherical Coordinate System

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Christopher Barrett

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Chem 110 lecture 5 qm & the structure of molecular energy levels. Lecture date/time: sept 18th, 2015 / 10:35-11:25 am. Schrodinger took de broglie"s idea & generalized a standing wave equation for all matter: problem: if everything is a standing wave/wave packet then everything must have wave-properties (some properties miss locality/uncertainty/fuzziness) Heisenberg helped with the interpretation of the problems of the schrodinger wave functions, but still can"t find the locality, uncertainty in pairs of measurements (if know the location, can"t find the wavelength, and the opposite) A wave in a room is everywhere (you can find the wave but can"t know the wavelength or you can know the wavelength but not the location, for example. ) When something in not only unmeasurable, but unknowable . The limit on the certainty of some pairs of observables = change in x * change in mv (is bigger than or equal to) h/4pi.