Hydrogen Atom Wave Functions, and Probability Densities

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The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions, Probability Density "pictures"

Table 1: Wave functions and their components
n m

1 0

2 0

2 1

2 1

3 0

3 1

3 1

3 2

3 2

3 2

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Figure 1: The coordinate system used to define the above variables.

Figure 2: Graphs of the radial wave functions for the first three principal quantum numbers of hydrogen.

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Figure 3: Probability distributions (per unit volume). A slice through the phi = 0 plane.

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Figure 4: The radial probability function r2R2 which gives the relative probability of finding the electron at a given distance r/a0.

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Figure 5: The energy ladder for hydrogen corresponding to its eigenstates.

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