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What exactly are atomic orbitals? And why do they have those shapes?
00:00 Cold Intro
00:56 Why does planetary model suck?
01:53 How to update and create a 3D atomic model
03:01 A powerful 1D analogy
06:06 Visualising the hydrogen's ground state
08:46 Probability density vs Radial Probability
10:00 What exactly is an orbital? (A powerful analogy)
12:15 A key tool to rediscover ideas intuitively
13:29 Visualising the first excited state
16:21 Why do p orbitals have dumbbell shape?
19:36 Radial nodes vs Angular nodes
20:30 Visualising the second excited state
21:58 Why do d orbitals have a double dumbbell shape?
24:11 Rediscovering the quantum numbers, intuitively!
27:25 Why are there 3 p orbitals, 5 d orbitals, and 7 f orbitals? (Hand wavy intuition)
30:09 Beyond the Schrödinger's equation
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