MU Chemistry 210 WS97
Interactive Exercise Nr. 1
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The place to start this adventure is Brucat's web site of
Pictures of
Atomic Orbitals at the University of Florida.
Check out the AOs for main quantum numbers n = 1 - 3.
Notice the spherical nodes in the s-AOs with
n>1. Look at the p-AOs 2p and 3p. Both have a node plane (they are p-AOs
and l=1) and 3p also has a node sphere in addition! Check out the set of
five d-AOs. They come in different shapes. Can you draw them?
I also found a site where you can download a Mathematica program that
allows you to draw
three-dimensional
representations of atomic
orbitals. If you are a Mathematica enthusiast, you
might try that out. Otherwise skip it.
Another University of Florida web site that shows the
Hydrogen Atomic
Orbitals.
Quicktime movies for the
visualization of atomic orbitals introduce you to
isosurfaces and much more. Check this out in the evening as the time for
downloading is significant!
Let me know if you can find other sites on the web that help learning
about atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals, hybridization and bonding. If
you bring a site and it get's posted, I will acknowledge you by name.