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Subject: Clarification of electron wave/cloud issues

Date: Mon Jun 22 17:58:53 2009
Posted by Ray
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Largo State/Province: FL Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1245718733.Ph
Message:

Could'nt find answers by searching archives.
My understanding is that electrons are standing 
waves (at discrete whole wave locations 
beginning with one whole wavelength) 
distributed through the spherical volume of the 
atom.I've never seen a spherical depiction of 1 
wavelength as for the 1S orbital.I've only seen 
the cloud depiction.Can these be describing the 
exact same thing ?
My understanding of the whole-wave multiples 
for shell locations, puts the e at dicrete 
locations of at least 1 whole wavelength which 
would seemingly never intersect the nucleus. 
The cloud picture of 1S seems to allow a fuzzy 
field of wave(partcle ?) location right down to 
the nucleus.Could you please clarify for me ?
Secondarily, the spherical single standing wave 
OR the spherical cloud shown for 1S-does that 
represent just 1 e of that orbital or both 
electrons at 1S ? Thank you


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