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[challenge entry] A hydrogen atom.


And if this doesn't win, there's no justice.

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(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:44, archived)
# Hahahaah!
Has the world gone MAD?
(I helped save b3ta! Christian Bale of Hay in a field, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:44, archived)
# There is no justice...just me*

*DEATH
(I helped save b3ta! Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:45, archived)
# bah
I want to see proper atomic orbitals.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:46, archived)
# That is a proper one.
an H atom only has 1 s orbital, and you can't draw a sphere on a flat screen.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian Bale of Hay in a field, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:48, archived)
# The electron's in its ground state
and therefore in the spherical 1s orbital.

That would just look like a circle (on a computer screen)



Happy now?
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:49, archived)
# are
you sur it's blue?
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:51, archived)
# yes
/keeps fingers crossed that no one can prove him wrong
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:52, archived)
# mm...
what, an e- binding energy 13.6 eV... equivalent
to a photon with frequency of 2E16 rad/s ... is
that blue?
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:58, archived)
# well that would be the energy released
moving an electron from its ground state to infinity. Which would mean the electron was no longer in orbit around the nucleus. Which would mean we no longer had a hydrogen atom. Which would mean that that wavelength of light is not the colour of a 1s orbital.
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 17:00, archived)
# ok
what plausible suggests might you suggest for working out the colour of an electron orbital?
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 17:02, archived)
# Science team!
*fanfare and theme tune*
(I helped save b3ta! Christian Bale of Hay in a field, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:51, archived)
# *high-fives Automatic Mince*
I notice from your profile you are still at school. It may seem a bit early to be considering not doing a PhD at the minute.

But whatever you do, don't do one.
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:54, archived)
# perhaps
if you actually worked on your thesis or research??

:-)
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:59, archived)
# that wouldn't be playing fair
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 17:03, archived)
# No,
It has to diminish in probability density as you get further from the proton. And be infinite in size.
(Can Tab, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:54, archived)
# I was drawing the angular component
not the density one. Feel free to draw your own, taking into account the electron density.
(I helped save b3ta! giant_squid, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:54, archived)
#
There is no angular component in an s orbital, only radial. Now geek me 'till I barf!

edit: No, I won't draw a better one. Not because I'm totally incapable*, but because I don't want to.




*is incapable
(Can Tab, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 16:58, archived)
# So simple,
It made me laugh like a rancid cheeseburger.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sat 22 Jan 2005, 0:15, archived)