The document discusses electron orbitals, which are regions of space where there is a high probability of finding an electron around the nucleus. The 1s orbital occupied by a hydrogen electron is spherically symmetric around the nucleus. An s orbital has spherical symmetry with the greatest chance of finding the electron further from the nucleus for higher energy levels like the 2s orbital shown.
The document discusses electron orbitals, which are regions of space where there is a high probability of finding an electron around the nucleus. The 1s orbital occupied by a hydrogen electron is spherically symmetric around the nucleus. An s orbital has spherical symmetry with the greatest chance of finding the electron further from the nucleus for higher energy levels like the 2s orbital shown.
The document discusses electron orbitals, which are regions of space where there is a high probability of finding an electron around the nucleus. The 1s orbital occupied by a hydrogen electron is spherically symmetric around the nucleus. An s orbital has spherical symmetry with the greatest chance of finding the electron further from the nucleus for higher energy levels like the 2s orbital shown.
The document discusses electron orbitals, which are regions of space where there is a high probability of finding an electron around the nucleus. The 1s orbital occupied by a hydrogen electron is spherically symmetric around the nucleus. An s orbital has spherical symmetry with the greatest chance of finding the electron further from the nucleus for higher energy levels like the 2s orbital shown.
95% of the time (or any other percentage you choose),
the electron will be found within a fairly easily defined region of space quite close to the nucleus. Such a region of space is called an orbital. You can think of an orbital as being the region of space in which the electron lives.
Note: If you wanted to be absolutely 100% sure of
where the electron is, you would have to draw an orbital the size of the Universe!
What is the electron doing in the orbital? We don't
know, we can't know, and so we just ignore the problem! All you can say is that if an electron is in a particular orbital it will have a particular definable energy.
Each orbital has a name.
The orbital occupied by the hydrogen electron is called
a 1s orbital. The "1" represents the fact that the orbital is in the energy level closest to the nucleus. The "s" tells you about the shape of the orbital. s orbitals are spherically symmetric around the nucleus - in each case, like a hollow ball made of rather chunky material with the nucleus at its centre.
The orbital on the left is a 2s
orbital.This is similar to a 1s orbital except that the region where there is the greatest chance of finding the electron is further from the nucleus - this is an orbital at the second energy level.
If you look carefully, you will notice that there is another
region of slightly higher electron density (where the dots are thicker) nearer the nucleus. ("Electron density" is
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