Re:3D Electron Orbitals of Hydrogen
by plus on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:53PM
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> n is how much energy the electron has (the higher, the further from the nucleus)
I disagree with this description. It is true that higher values of n correspond to wave functions with higher energy, but higher values of l also correspond to wave functions with higher energy. n indicates the number of radial nodes.
> A volume integral would be unitless
The volume integral has units of "number of electrons". Calling this unitless is unnecessarily misleading I feel, even if it is technically correct, since in physics we tend not to give units to quantities like this.
I disagree with this description. It is true that higher values of n correspond to wave functions with higher energy, but higher values of l also correspond to wave functions with higher energy. n indicates the number of radial nodes.
> A volume integral would be unitless
The volume integral has units of "number of electrons". Calling this unitless is unnecessarily misleading I feel, even if it is technically correct, since in physics we tend not to give units to quantities like this.