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Re:Circular Harmonics by frutiger on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:30PM (#29044258)
Electrons do not orbit.

For the simple case of an electron in a hydrogen atom, energy-stable wavefunctions are products of three separate functions: exponential function, a laguerre polynomial function and a spherical harmonic.

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Re:Circular Harmonics by Sharlin on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:39PM (#29044697)
Presumably the GP meant orbitals.
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Re:Circular Harmonics by robotsteve2 on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:44PM (#29044738)
It's an important distinction. A lot of people would like to think electrons orbit the nucleus like planets orbit a star.
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Re:Circular Harmonics by Sharlin on Friday October 29, 2021 @09:20PM (#29045200)
Yes, but someone thinking in terms of the Bohr model would not ask is the orbits are (described by) spherical harmonics.
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