Atomic Orbitals, Visualized Dynamically

Visuals of quantum orbitals are always so static. What happens when an electron transitions? A current must flow to conserve the probability. What does that look like?!

Nick Lucid - Creator/Host/Writer/Editor/Animator
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TIME CODES

00:00 Cold Open
00:31 Seeing Atoms is Hard
01:10 Atomic Structure
01:52 History of the Atom
02:24 What are Orbitals?
02:57 Schrodinger's Equation
04:00 Spherical Coordinates
04:35 Orbital Shapes
05:45 Orbital Sizes
06:20 Flow of Probability
07:17 Summary
08:04 Outro
08:20 Featured Comments