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- From: MATGBB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BYRNES,Graham)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: electron orbitals
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.013752.10630@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 01:37:52 GMT
- References: <gate.PiigsB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us>
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- In-Reply-To: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us's message of 11 Oct 92 01:40:48 GMT
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- In <gate.PiigsB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us> cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us writes:
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- >
- > This is a good question for a phyisics newsgroup. I would
- > explain it but unless you've had Differential Equations and
- > several years of calculoous it would appear a shear gibberish
- > to you. It's not very simple unfortunately. It also has a
- > bit to do with chaos theory.
- >
- > Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
- Ummm, I did the several years of calculus, and I know the orbitals come
- from the different solution modes of the Schrodinger equation solved
- for spherical symmetry (ie spherical harmonics, Legendre poly's and all that).
- But what does it have to do with Chaos? My understanding was that all linear
- DE's were non-chaotic. In fact, if the solutions were highly divergent
- (chaotic), surely there would be no eigenmodes, hence no well defined orbitals?
-
- > Scripted at Sat 10-10-1992 16:09:01
- >
- > ... Rubber bands are hazardous to pets if swallowed.
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- My cat LOVES rubber bands...
- >
- Graham B
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