CHEM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Spherical Coordinate System, Rydberg Constant, Probability Amplitude
Document Summary
The important point from debroglie"s work is that whether a particle behaves as a particle or wave depends on what you"re doing with it. Think of an electron in an orbit as a standing transverse wave. Must match up" when it circles back on itself, otherwise the wave would cancel itself out and the electron wouldn"t exist. Since the wave must match up," a whole number n of wavelengths must make up this circumference. This is one of bohr"s postulates, now explained through classical. It"s the square the divergence operator (sort of) Can break wave equation into position piece and time piece. This allows us to just write a function for position. If pe doesn"t depend on time, total energy is constant. Means you do something to the function and you get the function back multiplied by a constant. This part of wave function describes the ke.
