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Hydrogen Radial Wavefunction Overview

The document discusses radial wavefunctions for hydrogen atom orbitals. It provides equations for the radial wavefunctions of different principle quantum numbers and shows they should be normalized. Graphs depict the probability distributions and radial wavefunctions, which have more nodes as the quantum number decreases. Examples are given for computing expectation values of position, momentum, and radial velocity in different hydrogen states.

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Hydrogen Radial Wavefunction Overview

The document discusses radial wavefunctions for hydrogen atom orbitals. It provides equations for the radial wavefunctions of different principle quantum numbers and shows they should be normalized. Graphs depict the probability distributions and radial wavefunctions, which have more nodes as the quantum number decreases. Examples are given for computing expectation values of position, momentum, and radial velocity in different hydrogen states.

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9/14/2018 The Radial Wavefunction Solutions

Next: The Hydrogen Spectrum Up: Hydrogen Previous: Hydrogen Contents

The Radial Wavefunction Solutions


Defining the Bohr radius

we can compute the radial wave functions Here is a list of the first several radial wave

functions .

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For a given principle quantum number ,the largest radial wavefunction is given by

The radial wavefunctions should be normalized as below.

* Example: Compute the expected values of , , , and in the

Hydrogen state .*

The pictures below depict the probability distributions in space for the Hydrogen
wavefunctions.

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The graphs below show the radial wave functions. Again, for a given the maximum

state has no radial excitation, and hence no nodes in the radial wavefunction. As

gets smaller for a fixed , we see more radial excitation.

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A useful integral for Hydrogen atom calculations is.

* Example: What is the expectation value of in the state ?*

* Example: What is the expectation value of in the state ?*

* Example: What is the expectation value of the radial component of velocity in the state

?*

Next: The Hydrogen Spectrum Up: Hydrogen Previous: Hydrogen Contents


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