Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.comIs the only atom that has a closed form solution, which allows for very good predictions, and gives awesome intuition about the orbitals in general.
It is arguably the most important solution of the Schrodinger equation.
In particular, it predicts:
- the major spectral line of the hydrogen atom by taking the difference between energy levels
The explicit solution can be written in terms of spherical harmonics.
A Better Way To Picture Atoms by minutephysics (2021)
Source. Renderings based on the exact Schrödinger equation solution for the hydrogen atom that depict wave function concentration by concentration of small balls, and angular momentum by how fast the balls rotate at each point. Mentions that the approach is inspired by de Broglie-Bohm theory. Ancestors
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- Atomic orbital
- Bessel function
- Hund's rules
- Madelung energy ordering rule
- Photon polarization
- Principal quantum number
- Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem
- Quantum number
- Schrödinger equation
- Schrödinger equation solution for the hydrogen atom
- Schrödinger picture
- Solving the Schrodinger equation with the time-independent Schrödinger equation
- Why is the spin of the electron half?