6. Hydrogen Atom Wavefunctions (Orbitals)

MIT 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2014
Instructor: Catherine Drennan

Where is that electron anyway? In this lecture, the probability of finding an electron at a particular distance from the nucleus is discussed. The concept of wavefunctions (orbitals) is introduced, and applications of electron spin are described. In particular, chemist Ben Ofori-Okai introduces us to the wonders of magnetic resonance imaging, also known as MRIs.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[sashafairyy]

Awesome. first year university student doing this topic and came upon this video. Cleared to concept up for me perfectly. THANK YOU

[aelobalthrop]

Nano MRI sounds absolutely a fascinating concept!!

[dragonbmgo]

Thank you for this video!

Love your lectures and I'm grateful they are all free on youtube 😊

[shamsamir]

The beautiful use of educational tools and techniques! Wow!

[jawden]

17:31 Was Nano MRI part of the COVID research. If so, big thumps up! We are soo close to being able to live life just as it was when this video was made!

[kennyimammahardika]

18:05 "we're still very far away from having a real cure for the common cold"


18:11 person: **cough**

[hp]

So great. Thanks MIT for providing these,

[ronaldjorgensen]

YOU ARE THE BEST EXPLAINER EVER THANK YOU

[zack_]

A well done lecture critical for understanding wavefunctions - food for thought🍔

[amritpalsinghsaini]

How can we solve the part at 22:00 the column ?

[indrajitbandyopadhyay]

Very nice! Could you please explain in the next video how we get different shapes of s, p, d, f orbitals with phases of lobes? This can be used to plot using Excel

[emanraafat]

coming from egypt . thank you very much 💗💗👀

[miosoto]

Hi guys I checked ocw I could not find lecture on Organic chemistry, if anyone did, please share the link

[dusaanna]

That is the problem: you can follow that "receipts" system without knowing anything about electro-magnetism which is at the basis of all these receipts. You can forget that everything is electro-magnetism in matter. As an example the PAULI principle indicate only that 2 magnets, in a stable position nearby cannot remain parallell north south. They will flip and go in opposite north. south. yes the electron is a small magnet as it spin with a charge around itsz center.

[MathPhilosophyLab]

So cool. The wavefunction is the same thing as the Orbital...

[ChaineYTXF]

R_Y (in eV) not R_H (rydberg constant in m^{-1}), right..?

[ShwetankT]

so is there any recommended text book along with the course?

[hailongwang]

the En @ 10:04 should be -2.18, not 2.8.

[RakeshLad-jvjg]

At 9min 54sec...
The Rydberg constant is incorrectly rounded to 2.8×10^-18 J. It should be 2.178x10^-18 J.
It's then easier to understand why the constant divided by 4 gives you 5.45x10^-19 J.

[SFYN..]

18:09 and we are on a break because of corona virus.. how about that nanoMRI..