Module 1 : Atomic Structure
Lecture 4 : The Schrodinger Equation
 

For the present, we shall first list the solutions (see Table 4.1) and study their implications in detail. Although the graphs of these functions are given later, try to plot them yourself so that you are quite at ease with their usage.

 

Table 4.1: Angular and radial parts of hydrogen-atom (and hydrogen - like atom) wave-functions
 

Angular part Y( , ) = () ( )

Radial part R nl (r)