Orbital Garden

A walk among the hydrogen atom's wavefunctions

W A S Dwalk Mouselook around Shiftrun Eexamine an orbital (when close) Gstart the guided tour Qstart the field challenge (quiz) Hstart the scavenger hunt Bopen your field notebook Escleave examine mode / release mouse

The garden is arranged in rings by principal quantum number n — the ground state at the centre, the n = 4 shell at the outer ring. Every glowing cloud is a real solution of the Schrödinger equation.

growing orbitals…