Wave Model of an Electron

135 - Wave Model of an Electron

The wave model of the electron can be used to explain the Bohr model. Electrons are found in certain orbits because they interfere with themselves and create standing waves. When the wavelengths don’t match up with a whole integer they will create destructive interference. When electrons fall to a lower orbit they emit a photon. They can move to a higher orbit by absorbing an identical photon.

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[sverres]

Finally a somewhat understandable explanation of the wave model. Helps a bunch!

[Shackled]

I have written several theoretical papers on the advancement of gravity and our understanding of the standard model. I still come back. To these videos to double check my foundations of knowledge. Thank you so much for these.

[elsiiitigertiger]

why did I learn more about this in a 2 minute video than a 45 minute class session

[TheGamingTool]

Okay, I am just trying to imagine what scientists must have thought when they found this result. I mean think about it, the electron is literally so fast that it creates interference with itself. That statement is a literal mind fuck. Excuse my language, but that is the only apt description for such a great phenomenon.

[klaus]

I can't thank you enough for this very concise video.

[sophiemurphy]

One of the clearest videos I've found on this subject- thanks so much! It actually makes more sense now! :) :)

[Starboy_tw]

In India, there's a book named: MHTCET Triumph Chemistry. It has a QR which direct to your video 🙌

[TomHendricksMusea]

This will challenge.
1. Positrons and electrons are also waves.
2. When a positron and electron meet they annihilate into pure energy just like destructive interference of two mirror waves.
3. That suggests that positrons and electrons are mirror image waves.
4. That suggests that  positive  and negative charge are the same waves with this difference; they are mirror images of each other.

[emmaforti]

THANK YOU NOW I FEEL LIKE I CAN UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING

[kiranrq]

Amazing stuff so glad I clicked on your video for such advance wave particle duality nature of electron. Electron moves around nucleus so that's why it gives round standing wave( in first orbit at least) unlike light waves which travel in forward direction.
This video also cleared why shells have different shapes in an atom---> because they travel in hormanic motions

[smkartha]

very helpful video for visualizing how electorns behave in waves

[pangeagamestudios]

electrons dont circle around the nucleus and they certainly dont interfere with other electrons to create the standing wave. The information is dated. The shear nuclear forces in the atom create the spherical harmonics in the gaussian medium that binds the atom together like a water filled balloon bouncing around. The spherical harmonics create these sub shells or ripples of this gaussian medium we call charge quanta. We mistake these rippes as electrons spinning around the nucleus when they are nothin but ripples of something even more elementary.

[llnam]

What if an electron is a standing wave while a photon is a traveling wave and they are actually the same thing.

[AqsaJaved_]

i really found it helpful. keep uploading. thanks a million.

[prakashsahu]

Great Explanation Sir. Love from India.

[Layarion]

wait, i wish you explained more about waves before going into this then, and 2) what would make them emit or absorb photons?

[parsafakhar]

Mr Anderson welcome back we missed you!

[dalenassar]

I have two questions about these 'wrapped-around' sine waves:
1) What can be said about the amplitude of the sine, ie. can it peak to the other levels and thus overlap with them?
2) Assuming the sinusoidal electrons exist in 3D, what is the volume coverage around the nucleus, or with respect to it's 'circular' orbit?
Thanks, and thumbs up!

[dylanstone]

My guess is when an electron travels as a wave the energy inside the wave is uneven and there's one point that's denser than the rest or has more energy in that one point of the wave

whenever you observe it you cause the rest of the energy in the wave to be pulled to the dentist point in the wave causing it to create a particle just going off what I know from the effects of the electron and the photon the photon always goes through the slits but the electron doesn't which means it has to be something within the electron causing it not to go through the slits

[avijitmajumdar]

I am really very much thankful to you, sir for the brilliant explanation...it was very much troubling me😊😊😊😊