CHMA10H3 Lecture 13: Orbitals
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Orbital nodes (no e- density in these regions) Total number of nodes in for any given orbital equals n-1. Probability of finding an e- in the nucleus is zero. As we get further from the nucleus, the orbitals get bigger. Wave functions (and therefore orbitals) have a phase (positive or negative) Orbitals change when they cross a node. He developed his own version of quantum mechanics that brought together the idea of wave mechanics and matrix mechanics in one unified formulation now known as. Allowed light or electrons to be treated as a wave or a particle and gave results consistent with experimental data. Energy depends only on principal quantum number (n) Multi-electron systems: schrodinger"s equation can only be solved exactly for a one-electron system, multi-electron systems are complicated by electron-electron repulsion, can approximate a solution for many-electron systems by assuming hydrogen- like orbitals. We can look at coulomb"s law to help explain why orbitals lose degeneracy:
