MadSci Network: Physics |
It is wrong to think of the electron motion as a classical orbit. The electron's QM wave function can be used to describe the electron's position in an atom. The angular distribution for any state is given by the angular part squared: |Y_lm|^2. For s states this is spherically symmetric. For the l=1, m=0 state it ~ cos^2(theta), etc.
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