{"id":1344,"date":"2017-05-15T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2017-05-15T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:28:06","slug":"week-27-qm-class-27-1-hydrogen-wave-function-visualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/week-27-qm-class-27-1-hydrogen-wave-function-visualizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 27 QM Class #27.1: Hydrogen Wave Function Visualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>If you are on a school computer, make sure you are using the Chrome browser (otherwise Flash and Java plug-ins might not work properly).<\/li>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falstad.com\/mathphysics.html\">http:\/\/www.falstad.com\/mathphysics.html<\/a><\/strong> and scroll down to Quantum Mechanics. Run the Hydrogen Atom Applet.<\/li>\n<li>Switch from Real Orbitals (chem.) to Complex Orbitals (phys.) in the pull-down menu; you can always switch back.<\/li>\n<li>Under View, note the options available to you. For now, turn off every option except Phase as color.<\/li>\n<li>Select n = 1. What options do you have for l and m? Under view, turn on Radial Distribution and compare to Figure 10.5 in your text. Turn off Radial Distribution.<\/li>\n<li>Select n = 1. What options do you have for l and m? Does this make sense? Choose different sets of l and m for n = 2 to view, and also view without and with Radial Distribution. Look at Figure 9.11 and Figure 10.5 and compare to what you see on your screen.<\/li>\n<li>Now, start with Figure 9.11 and Figure 10.5 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>before<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0doing anything with the computer visualization. Look at the l = 2 graphs in Figure 9.11, and the R<sub>3,2<\/sub> graph \u00a0in Figure 10.5. Imagine what the combined wave functions might look like. Check it out using\u00a0the simulation.<\/li>\n<li>Explore other parts of the simulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are on a school computer, make sure you are using the Chrome browser (otherwise Flash and Java plug-ins might not work properly). Go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.falstad.com\/mathphysics.html and scroll down to Quantum Mechanics. Run the Hydrogen Atom Applet. Switch from Real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/week-27-qm-class-27-1-hydrogen-wave-function-visualizations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}