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Like Hydrogen, but shifted blue.
Like Hydrogen, but shifted red.
Identical with Hydrogen.
Unlike Hydrogen (no Lyman series)
Why?
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The primeval quantity in the simplest formulations of quantum mechanics is the wavefunction. This beast tells you everything you can know about the particle. In particular the square of the wavefunction tells you the probability of finding the particle as a function of position. The BLUE lines on the previous page show the wavefunctions that correspond to each allowed energy. Just so that the wavefunctions don't lie on top of one another, and to allow you to easily match a wavefunction with its corresponding energy, each wavefunction is drawn with its x-axis lying along the red line indicating its energy.
Now comes the fun part. You are not looking at a static picture. See the green section of the box floor? You can drag it up with your mouse, forming a little "pedestal" in the middle of the box. Just move your mouse arrow over the green section, press down the mouse button, and drag the mouse while holding down the mouse button. Release the button when you have the pedestal as tall as you'd like it. Once you have the pedestal up, you can also grab its sides and make it as wide or narrow as you like.
Okay, back to quizzes. How can you make the 1st and 2nd energy levels collapse into one? Why does this happen?
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