Orbitals: Crash Course Chemistry #25
In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank discusses what Molecules actually look like and why, some quantum-mechanical three dimensional wave functions are explored, he touches on hybridizati...
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We spend a lot of time thinking about atoms as looking like this. There's a ball and there's a stick, and there's another ball and another stick. It's just a bunch of balls stuck together by these little wooden bonds. Simple. Pretty easy to understand, and thus — as you have probably come to expect — it is entirely incorrect. Nuclei really can be understood as little balls, and that's more or less correct, though when you get to some of the bigger, less stable ones they start looking more oblong and weird like a rugby ball. Atoms are basically ball-like as well, with electrons and a spherical cloud around the nucleus. But molecules, as we discussed last time, do not look like balls on sticks. Bonds don't form into neat litt...
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We spend a lot of time thinking about atoms as looking like this. There's a ball and there's a stick, and there's another ball and another stick. It's just a bunch of balls stuck together by these little wooden bonds. Simple. Pretty easy to understand, and thus — as you have probably come to expect — it is entirely incorrect. Nuclei really can be understood as little balls, and that's more or less correct, though when you get to some of the bigger, less stable ones they start looking more oblong and weird like a rugby ball. Atoms are basically ball-like as well, with electrons and a spherical cloud around the nucleus. But molecules, as we discussed last time, do not look like balls on sticks. Bonds don't form into neat litt...
