
I edited this article because I'm hoping the importance will help inspire someone to drive progress. Most of the physicists who first appreciated it unfortunately did not live to see an advance. A real advance on this question may be the greatest physics breakthough of all time. The issue is whether something beyond our current observation abilities is interacting with the electron as Einstein believed, or whether the universe has some inherent randomness build into it. Karol 10:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC) That, but what the math describes is an electron that acts randomly. Whould someone please figure out wut an electron cloud is i need to know but maybe im not the only one that doesn't, i dont think any body does.Įlectron cloud is a nice word for an abstract mathematical object. It need's to be put into layman's terms so that everyone can understand.Ĭan someone give me a brief description of an electron cloud?Īn electron cloud is an area of negative charge surrounding a nucleus of an atom that is linked with an atomic orbital. It's not? OK, what is it then? This article is a bit hard to read and I gently encourage integrating it with the electron orbitals article (because improving this one would mean duplicating content), however for today I'm linking to it so that my "friend" can get all the available Wikipeformation.

"Electron cloud is not a term used by the Nobel Prize laureate and acclaimed educator Richard Feynman".

"The Orbitron: a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals on the redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Physics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Physics on Wikipedia. King, "Atomic orbitals, symmetry, and coordination polyhedra," Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 197, 2000 pp.

Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

In this Demonstration, the most commonly used convention was chosen. Then both parts are colored differently.Īlternative representations for the seven orbitals can be written. It is used to attach signs to the positive or negative parts of the radial wavefunction. The function pos inside OrbitalModel is shown at the link Problem with SphericalPlot3D plotting. Pairwise linear combinations of complex spherical harmonics yield real functions, which can be plotted as boundary surfaces. The angular functions for are complex and depend on, , or both. The three -orbitals for a given value of are described by the values gives the orbital. The set of shapes in the snapshots is given for and for combinations of. In chemistry orbitals can be classified according to their orientation in a rectangular coordinate system.
