Visuals of quantum orbitals are always so static. What happens when an electron transitions? A current must flow to conserve the probability. What does that look like?!
Nick Lucid - Creator/Host/Writer/Editor/Animator
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VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
What is a Quantum Wave Function?
https://youtu.be/vShpwplJyXk
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RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS
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Stated Clearly on Atoms:
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OTHER SOURCES
https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1996/MichaelPhillip.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_spherical_harmonics
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png
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LINKS TO COMMENTS
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IMAGE CREDITS
Gold - Electron Microscope:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_resolution_Au100.JPG
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:31 Seeing Atoms is Hard
01:10 Atomic Structure
01:52 History of the Atom
02:24 What are Orbitals?
02:57 Schrodinger's Equation
04:00 Spherical Coordinates
04:35 Orbital Shapes
05:45 Orbital Sizes
06:20 Flow of Probability
07:17 Summary
08:04 Outro
08:20 Featured Comments