In this video, we explore the solutions of the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom. Thank you to everyone who is continuing on this thrilling adventure into the smallest atom in the universe!

For those of you who want to see even more of the mathematical details, here's a wonderful paper on the topic, which I highly recommend:

https://faculty.washington.edu/seattl...

More info on the spherical harmonics:

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Spheric...

Table of spherical harmonics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Spherical Harmonics
15:01 Radial Functions
20:04 Energy Eigenstates and Eigenvalues
22:02 Absorption/Emission Spectrum
26:49 Solving the S.E.
44:15 Concluding Remarks

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