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PROFESSOR: So, a couple
of announcements.

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Tomorrow we've got Quiz Two.

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Based on Homework Two
And then, Thursday,

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we'll have the
periodic table quiz.

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I give you the numbers,
you give me the letters.

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And Friday is the last
day for the contest.

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I'll have office hours.

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I know when others
have office hours.

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I'll be available 4:30 to 5:30
down the hall in my office.

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Where is Grant's, who's
buried in Grant's Tomb?

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Grant.

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Where are my office hours held?

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In my office.

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Good.

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Last day.

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Last day.

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It was a rough weekend.

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I can't get a smile,
can't get a laugh.

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So, last day we looked at the
validation of the Bohr model.

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And we had two pieces
of experimental data.

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First were the hydrogen
spectrum lines,

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measured in 1853 by Angstrom
and fit to an equation by J.J.

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Balmer in 1885.

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And, secondly, we saw the
Franck-Hertz experiment,

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in which we were able to
get the sense that energy

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levels within a multi-electron
atom, like, mercury,

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those energy levels
are also quantized,

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which gave credence to
the quantum condition.

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Which said that the movement
of an electron, the movement

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of an electron, is quantized.

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And then we started looking
at the limitations of the Bohr

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model, problems
with the Bohr model.

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And I said, in two
words, fine structure.

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And we started looking
at fine structure.

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We see that the 656
nanometer line in hydrogen,

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in point of fact, is a doublet.

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It's actually two lines
very closely spaced.

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Bohr model is incapable
of explaining this.

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Zeeman looked at
gas discharge tube,

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measured hydrogen spectrum
in a magnetic field,

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and found line
splitting proportional

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to the intensity of the field.

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Stark did similar experiments
only in an electric field,

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and also found line
splitting, the degree of which

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was proportional to the
intensity of the field.

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And the Bohr model is
incapable of explaining this.

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Sommerfeld, in 1916, put
a patch on the Bohr model

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and proposed that
the electron moves

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not only in a circular orbit
but also in elliptical orbits.

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And there's a plurality
of these orbits.

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But overall, the distance from
the nucleus to the electron

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orbits is more or less given by
the principal quantum number n,

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and the degree of
eccentricity is tiny.

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But, more or less,
described by n.

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And then to further
depict what's going on,

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he introduced the
orbital quantum number

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or, as your book calls it,
the azimuthal quantum number.

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And the magnetic quantum number.

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And further said that the
energy of the electron

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is given by the specifications
according to all three quantum

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numbers.

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And then, lastly, in
order to get completeness,

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we jumped ahead in
time to 1922 with

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the Stern-Gerlach experiment,
which was the beam of silver.

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Atoms through a divergent
magnetic field, the beam

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split in two symmetrically
about the point

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at which the beam would land
on the slide in the absence

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of a magnetic field.

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And that can led to
some deeper thinking

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by two graduate students in
Leiden, Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck,

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who proposed the notion
of electron spin.

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And from that came the
fourth quantum number,

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s, and we're going to
throw that into the mix

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even though Sommerfeld didn't
give it to us back in 1916.

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But I just want to move
forward with all of them.

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And we recognize
that s could take

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on two values,
plus or minus 1/2,

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or we could call it
spin up or spin down.

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And, as you're going
to learn in 802,

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the convention in
electromagnetism

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is the right-hand rule.

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That is to say, the thumb
indicates the vector

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and the curl of the fingers
indicate the rotation.

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So we would argue that
this is an electron

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spin from looking top-down
anticlockwise and then

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vice versa.

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So that's as far as we got.

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And so now what
I'd like to do is

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to take a look at
the periodic table

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and get a sense of
electron filling.

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And whether that explains the
trends in the periodic table.

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And for that I'm going to go
to table 6-3 in your reading.

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And all we're going
to do, basically,

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is say, well can we can we
use this idea of n, l and m,

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and explain the order of
filling in a periodic table.

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So when n equals 1,
l must be equal to 0.

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And the m must be equal to 0.

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So that means there's
only one orbital.

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And, in that orbital, we
can have two electrons.

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So we've got the possibility of
two different electrons going

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into the 1s orbital.

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Then we go, n equals 2.

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l can take a value of 0.

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Which is the same as
what we had before.

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Just one orbital
in that subshell.

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Or we can have l equals
1, in which case m can

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take three different values;
minus 1, 0, and plus 1.

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So there's three orbitals there.

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3 plus 1 is 4.

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And that gives us
the possibility

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of putting 8 electrons in.

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Because this is n, l, and m.

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And then we've got the choice
of s plus or minus 1/2.

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And we'll do one more.

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We'll go to n equals 3.

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So at l equals 0,
we just have 1.

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When l equals 1, we
have the same thing

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as we had with the 2p.

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And then when l equals 2, we
have what's known as the 3d.

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Remember the
spectroscopists there.

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They don't like numbers.

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So they use s, p, d, f.

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But we're smart.

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We can go 0, 1, 2.

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It didn't hurt us.

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And we go minus 2,
minus 1, 0, 1, 2.

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So there's 5.

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So 5 plus 3 is 8, and 9.

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9 times 2 is 18.

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Now let's go to
the periodic table

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and see if this reconciles.

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So, when we have 1s,
there's hydrogen, helium.

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And then the next is n equals 2.

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So that should give
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So, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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So there's the 8 different
electrons that get us

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all the way over to neon.

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And now let's go to n equals 3.

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So, I have 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

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And then I'm over to 4.

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4s.

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But look, this is
saying I should have 18.

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18 electrons in n equals 3.

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So what I'm pointing out here
is that there's a disconnect,

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there's a disconnect between
the populating of electrons

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just in ascending
quantum number,

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and the way the elements are
arranged in the periodic table.

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There's some other
factor at work here.

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So we want to take a look at
what that could possibly be.

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And, so what we need is to
go to a modified energy level

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diagram.

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A modified energy
level diagram, that

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can explain what the
filling sequence is

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in the periodic table.

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And the modified
energy level diagram

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is drawn on the basis
of the Aufbau principle.

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The Aufbau principle.

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Aufbau, German,
meaning construction.

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I think it actually
means out-build.

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But, anyways, it generates
the filling sequence.

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So, there are three parts
to the Aufbau principle.

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And the Aufbau principle
is going to govern,

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it's going to govern or direct
the electron filling sequence.

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Directs the electron
filling sequence.

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So, the first component
of the Aufbau principle

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is the Pauli
exclusion principle.

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Pauli exclusion principle.

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Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian.

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He did his Ph.D under
Sommerfeld in Munich,

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and then he post-docced
with Born in Gottingen

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and on to Niels Bohr Copenhagen.
These people worked together.

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They traveled from
lab to lab, and it

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was a very vibrant
conversation going on.

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Eventually, he became a
professor physics in Hamburg.

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And the Pauli exclusion
principle, simply stated,

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is that in any electron
system, each electron

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has a unique set of
four quantum numbers.

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A unique set of four
quantum numbers.

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Any atom set, four
quantum numbers

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are unique for each electron.

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For each electron.

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So you can think of this
as the set of n, l, m and s

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as sort of the social
security number,

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if you like, for each of
the electrons in the set.

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And he eventually gets the
Nobel Prize for this, in 1945.

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Virtually everybody
I'm going to talk

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about today, with the
exception of Sommerfeld,

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gets the Nobel Prize.

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Sommerfeld is a very
interesting character, though.

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While he himself never won
the Nobel Prize, many, many

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of his students and proteges
won Nobel Prizes, to which you

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must include that there
was something very, very

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special about the quality of
the mentoring that he gave,

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that so many of his proteges
went on to win the Nobel Prize.

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So this is the first part
of the Aufbau principle.

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The second part is
that the electrons fill

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from lowest to highest energy.

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So electrons fill orbitals.

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You can think of the
orbitals as placeholders.

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They're really energy concepts.

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But we populate orbitals from
lowest to highest energy.

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From lowest to highest energy.

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Or if I wanted to be a
wise guy, I would say,

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I'm going to define
energy in such a way

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as I get that as the
filling sequence.

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One's got to fit the other.

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And the energy is
itself a function

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of the four quantum numbers.

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So energy, once I
specify n, l, m, and s,

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you can give me the
energy and away we go.

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And the thing is that
you need to realize

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that the energy levels are
actually a function of electron

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occupancy.

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So you can look
carefully, if you get down

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into the d orbitals
and the f orbitals,

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as you add one more
electron moving one element

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to the right on
the periodic table,

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sometimes you see the
population not adding by one,

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because the addition
of an electron

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changes the relative energies
of the various orbitals.

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So let's remember that,
that energy is a function

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of electron occupancy.

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Energy is a function
of electron occupancy.

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And then the third part
of the Aufbau principle

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is called Hund's rule.

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Hund's rule.

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Now, Hund is German for dog, but
this isn't named after a dog.

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This is named after Friedrich
Hund, a professor of physics

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at Frankfurt.

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He taught for many years.

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He died at the
tender age of 101.

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And he spoke about degeneracy.

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Not societal degeneracy,
but degeneracy in an atom.

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And this degeneracy
is the condition

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where you have a plurality of
orbitals at the same energy

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level.

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So, in orbitals of
equivalent energy,

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in orbitals of
equivalent energy,

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we strive for
unpaired electrons.

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This is filling, now.

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This is how to direct
the filling sequence.

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Strive for unpaired electrons.

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Let's say unpaired
electron spins.

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Let's make it a little clearer.

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Unpaired electron spins.

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So I'm going to
give you an example,

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work through an example.

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So, what have we got here?

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Here's carbon.

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And if you look at any
element on the periodic table,

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you'll see this green.

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And this is the
electronic configuration.

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This tells you what
the sequence looks

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like for that particular element
in the neutral form, et cetera,

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et cetera, subject to
many, many considerations.

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So let's look at carbon.

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So if we look at carbon, it
tells us 1 s2, 2 s2, 2 p2.

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So what's all this mean?

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Well, it's all written
in code for us.

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So the first number
here is the n number.

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So this means n equals 1.

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s is the spectrocopist's
notation,

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so this means that l equals 0.

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And then the 2 here means
2 electron occupancy.

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So the 1s orbital is filled
to the tune of two electrons.

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And the 2s orbital
has two electrons,

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and the 2p orbital
likewise has two electrons.

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So now we want to do is
put these electronics

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into their orbitals.

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And we can use, there's
a variety of notations.

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This is one I'll use today.

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This is a box notation.

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So this is 1s.

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This is 2s.

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And then this is 2p.

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If you recall, 2p there's
going to be three of them.

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If you go back here,
2p has three orbitals

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in that sub-shell.

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And we said that
this is the one time

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that m makes some
sense with respect

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to Cartesian coordinates.

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m is -1, 0, +1 so we can call
this 2p x, 2p y, and 2p z.

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And I don't know which is which.

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I don't know what the arbitrary
standards of x, y, and z,

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I don't know where the
origin of the universe is,

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so I can't tell you all this.

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But, arbitrarily, if
I choose one as x,

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I know where the other two are
according to right-hand rule.

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So let's start filling.

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This says 2, so I'll put in
one spin up, and one spin down.

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Now it says 2s 2.

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One spin up, one spin down.

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And now here's where
the Hund rule comes in.

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I've got to put two electrons
into these three boxes.

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Now, I could be a librarian
and start left to right,

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and make them nice and neat.

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Or, I could just put
them in wherever I want.

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What the Hund rule says is,
strive for unpaired electron

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spin.

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So for the Hund rule, you'd
put them in both same spin

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and in different orbitals.

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And then when you
get to nitrogen,

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nitrogen will have
a third one here.

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And when you get
to oxygen you've

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got three plus the fourth one's
going to be one of these three

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and I don't care.

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I mean, some people are
really anal about it,

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and they want you to
go from left to right.

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As long as you've got two of
them unpaired and one of them

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paired for oxygen I'll be happy.

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So now we can use
this concept and look

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at the energy level diagram
for multi-electron atoms.

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And this is taken from the book.

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So this is different
from the energy level

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diagram for
hydrogen, because you

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can see some compression here.

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And I want you to know first
of all, all of these values

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are negative.

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It's true that energy
increases vertically,

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but the zero is way up here.

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So these are all
negative values.

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And I want to zoom in here.

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Because the energy difference
between 1s and 2s is large.

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And we know in hydrogen it's 3/4
of the total energy difference.

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Because there's some compression
in a multi-electron atom.

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But nevertheless,
n equals 1 to n

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equals 2 is a huge
energy difference.

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So let's zoom in on here.

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And what do we see?

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Well, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p and look.

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4s lies below 3d.

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4s lies below 3d.

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So that tells us, there's my 3s.

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3s 1, 3s 2.

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There's 3p x1, 3p
y1, 3p z1, 2, 2, 2.

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And now what's next?

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It says go to 4s.

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So potassium is 4s 1.

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Calcium's 4s 2.

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And scandium is 3d 1.

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So this energy level
diagram is the map.

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It tells you how to put
electronics in sequence.

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So, this now gives us
the rational basis for e

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equals n, l, m and s.

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All right.

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Well this is nice.

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It's been graphical, and so on.

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Now I want to go to
the same position.

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I want to get back to this, I
want to get back to this point.

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But I want to go
by different route.

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I want to go by different
route, and for that we're

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going to go by wave mechanics.

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So, same destination.

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Same destination,
via wave mechanics.

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Now, you don't have partial
differential equations

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as a prerequisite
for 3.091, so I'm not

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going to go through the math.

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I'm going to give you the
features of the wave mechanics.

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So that later on you're going
to spiral around and study this

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again.

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You'll have seen it before.

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And again, there's going
to be people involved,

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and they're all giants
in modern physics.

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The first one is de Broglie.

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The first one is
Louis-Victor de Broglie.

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Let's get his name on the board.

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Louis-Victor de Broglie, he was
an aristocrat from Normandy,

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who had gone to the Sorbonne.

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He was studying humanities.

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Political science,
literature, and around

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about the time of his
senior year he decided

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to switch horses
for graduate school

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and forget about a career
in the diplomatic corps,

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do a Ph.D in physics.

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So, he did a Ph.D in physics.

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00:19:29,050 --> 00:19:35,460
And in 1924 he published this
Ph.D thesis, beautiful piece

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of elegant writings.

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Less than 30 pages long.

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And I'll give you sort of the
summary, the one-liner that

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summarizes his Ph.D thesis.

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Most of you are going to
have to write a thesis.

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The word thesis comes from the
Greek, and it means, sort of,

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my position.

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My statement.

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Before I have a thesis, I have
something that is not a thesis.

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It's my trial balloon.

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That's a hypo-thesis,
a hypothesis.

402
00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,990
Now, the key to
writing a good thesis

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is to ask a really
good question.

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00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,090
If you ask a
pedestrian question,

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you're probably going to get
some pedestrian answers and ho

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hum.

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00:20:16,630 --> 00:20:18,380
If you ask a really
interesting question,

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you give rise to the possibility
of interesting answers.

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And what de Broglie did is,
he asked a really interesting

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question.

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So here's his question: He
says, if a photon, which

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has no mass, photon's
just an energy packet.

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If a photon which has no mass
can behave as a particle,

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and we've seen.

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00:20:37,050 --> 00:20:40,240
We model ray optics
as particle beams.

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And a photon, and Max Planck
said equals h nu got no mass,

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00:20:44,370 --> 00:20:47,610
but we can think of it in our
little anthropomorphic brains

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as, photon photon photon.

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00:20:51,110 --> 00:20:54,330
So if a photon, which has no
mass, can behave as a particle,

420
00:20:54,330 --> 00:20:58,030
does it follow that an
electron, which has mass,

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00:20:58,030 --> 00:21:01,060
can behave as a wave?

422
00:21:01,060 --> 00:21:01,847
It's beautiful.

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00:21:01,847 --> 00:21:02,930
Let's do it one more time.

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If a photon, which has no
mass, can behave as a particle,

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00:21:06,030 --> 00:21:08,705
does it follow that an
electron which has mass,

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can behave as a wave?

427
00:21:09,580 --> 00:21:13,160


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So he asked the question.

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00:21:14,530 --> 00:21:15,720
And he answers it.

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00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,410
In less than 30 pages.

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00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:19,870
So, let's get this on the board.

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00:21:19,870 --> 00:21:21,630
Because this is beautiful.

433
00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:25,390
It's like, ask not what you
can do for your country.

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00:21:25,390 --> 00:21:39,010
If a photon, which has no
mass, can behave as a particle,

435
00:21:39,010 --> 00:21:44,240
or can be modeled as a
particle, behave really means,

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00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,120
so that the theoreticians
can model it as a particle,

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00:21:48,120 --> 00:22:05,750
does it follow that an
electron, which has mass,

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00:22:05,750 --> 00:22:08,750
can behave as a wave?

439
00:22:08,750 --> 00:22:11,090
See, if you understand
the question then

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00:22:11,090 --> 00:22:21,020
the impact of the answer, and
the answer is, if it does,

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this is what its
wavelength is going to be.

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00:22:23,150 --> 00:22:26,830
So de Broglie said, the
wavelength of an electron,

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if it were to behave
as a wave, would

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00:22:29,170 --> 00:22:32,350
be given by the ratio
of the Planck constant

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00:22:32,350 --> 00:22:36,650
to the Newtonian momentum,
which you know from 8.01

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is simply h over the product of
electron mass and its velocity.

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00:22:43,730 --> 00:22:45,784
So that's de Broglie's thesis.

448
00:22:45,784 --> 00:22:47,700
So let's take a look
what we can do with this.

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00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:54,210
Now, you remember in the
Bohr model, recall Bohr.

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00:22:54,210 --> 00:22:58,130
Well, Bohr taught us that mvr,
that's the quantum, condition,

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mvr equals the ratio
of h over 2 pi times n,

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00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,980
where n takes on
the discrete values.

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00:23:06,980 --> 00:23:08,400
1, 2, 3, et cetera.

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That's the quantum condition.

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Now let's take this
idea of de Broglie.

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And first of all we have to
put the electron in its orbit.

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00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:23,540
So we'll put the
electron in its orbit.

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00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:26,280
And now I'm going to
have it behave as a wave.

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00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,330
So if it behaves as a wave,
I'm going to draw it as a wave.

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461
00:23:34,930 --> 00:23:36,330
Now, why did I draw it this way?

462
00:23:36,330 --> 00:23:37,580
There's two kinds of
waves in this world.

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There's standing waves and
there's traveling waves.

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00:23:39,705 --> 00:23:41,780
Now, this orbit's station,
it's in this orbit.

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So it better be a standing wave.

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00:23:44,470 --> 00:23:46,910
I think there's a
cartoon in the book.

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00:23:46,910 --> 00:23:49,944
There you go, standing wave.

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00:23:49,944 --> 00:23:51,610
In order for this to
be a standing wave,

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there's a geometric
constraint on this.

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00:23:53,730 --> 00:23:56,720
Listen carefully
geometric constraint.

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I'm not saying anything
about quantum mechanics.

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Geometric constraint,
the geometric constraint

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00:24:09,470 --> 00:24:16,407
for a standing wave is what?

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00:24:16,407 --> 00:24:17,990
You know what this
distance is, right?

475
00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:20,450
I mean, this is not to scale.

476
00:24:20,450 --> 00:24:22,240
This should be
10,000:1, in which case

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00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,030
these ripples are
barely visible.

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00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:27,245
But here it looks
kind of exaggerated.

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This is a hyper wave.

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This is emphasis added in proof.

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00:24:32,890 --> 00:24:36,040
So that means that the
circumference here, 2 pi

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r, the circumference must be an
integral number of wavelengths

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for a standing wave.

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00:24:45,540 --> 00:24:49,040
But we know that
from de Broglie,

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I can write n lambda
as n h over m v. I've

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just put in de Broglie's
definition of the wavelength

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of an electron.

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00:25:01,420 --> 00:25:07,040
And now I can
cross-multiply and I get mvr

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equals h over 2 pi times n.

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Which is Bohr's
quantum condition.

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So we've got validation
of the Bohr model,

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so that's a pretty
compelling case

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that maybe the electron
really does behave as a wave,

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00:25:29,930 --> 00:25:32,860
and that explains why we
have the quantum condition

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that we do.

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So de Broglie, that's
his Ph.D in 1924.

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Einstein read the
thesis, loved the thesis.

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00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:46,580
But we don't care
what Einstein says,

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because he's a theoretician.

502
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,110
So one theoretician praising
another theoretician.

503
00:25:51,110 --> 00:25:52,400
That's not how science works.

504
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,190
How does science work?

505
00:25:54,190 --> 00:25:54,860
Data.

506
00:25:54,860 --> 00:25:56,670
We need data.

507
00:25:56,670 --> 00:26:00,830
And the data come in 1927.

508
00:26:00,830 --> 00:26:04,332
1927, at Bell Labs
in New Jersey.

509
00:26:04,332 --> 00:26:09,070
At Bell Labs in New Jersey
come the critical data.

510
00:26:09,070 --> 00:26:11,705
And they were taken by
Davisson and Germer.

511
00:26:11,705 --> 00:26:15,460


512
00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:17,360
Davisson and Germer.

513
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,840
Davisson and Germer
were studying crystals.

514
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,940
They were studying crystals
of various elements,

515
00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:25,825
and in particular
metal crystals.

516
00:26:25,825 --> 00:26:28,380


517
00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:33,790
Metal crystals,
by X-ray analysis.

518
00:26:33,790 --> 00:26:36,390


519
00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:38,380
And in order for
you to appreciate

520
00:26:38,380 --> 00:26:41,162
what I'm going to show you of
Davisson and Germer's work,

521
00:26:41,162 --> 00:26:42,870
I'm going to take you
back to high school

522
00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:45,550
to those thrilling days
with the wave tanks.

523
00:26:45,550 --> 00:26:47,040
Remember the wave tank?

524
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,000
This is the top view, this is
the side view of the wave tank.

525
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,840
And you might have some kind
of a mechanical device here

526
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,060
that has a paddle.

527
00:26:55,060 --> 00:26:56,810
And it starts
vibrating up and down,

528
00:26:56,810 --> 00:26:59,370
and it starts sending
waves into the tank.

529
00:26:59,370 --> 00:27:02,320
So the waves come like
this, from the edge

530
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,370
it looks like this.

531
00:27:04,370 --> 00:27:05,170
Remember that?

532
00:27:05,170 --> 00:27:06,210
Sure you do.

533
00:27:06,210 --> 00:27:07,510
You're toying with me.

534
00:27:07,510 --> 00:27:10,160
Oh, I don't remember
anything, we never did that.

535
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,920
Sure you did.

536
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,170
OK, so you can send waves down.

537
00:27:15,170 --> 00:27:17,820
Now, what we can do is,
we can put a dam here.

538
00:27:17,820 --> 00:27:20,960
I'm going to put a dam.

539
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,840
And depending on, if
this is the wavelength,

540
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,990
this is the wavelength,
it's the distance

541
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:30,910
between two successive crests.

542
00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:35,560
And, if this spacing
here, the gap

543
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,020
between the wall and
the edge of the dam, d,

544
00:27:39,020 --> 00:27:42,950
if d is greater than
lambda, the waves

545
00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:45,910
just propagate but
for the place where

546
00:27:45,910 --> 00:27:47,450
they're blocked by the dam.

547
00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:49,575
So you get, you
essentially cast a shadow.

548
00:27:49,575 --> 00:27:53,830


549
00:27:53,830 --> 00:27:55,380
You've seen that.

550
00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:59,460
And so I could model
this system as a beam.

551
00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:01,800
This is a beam.

552
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,850
This is a water beam.

553
00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:06,300
This is a water beam shadow.

554
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:08,750
And this is equivalent
to ray optics.

555
00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:12,930
Straight lines, if something
gets in the way it's opaque.

556
00:28:12,930 --> 00:28:14,140
Blocks transmission.

557
00:28:14,140 --> 00:28:15,420
End of story.

558
00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:17,020
So you've seen all that.

559
00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:20,890
But you also did this other
experiment, I'm willing to bet.

560
00:28:20,890 --> 00:28:22,665
So let's do the
other experiment.

561
00:28:22,665 --> 00:28:24,040
We're going to do
the same thing.

562
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,520
I'm going to send
waves down here.

563
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,320
Only, this time we're going
to make the dam a little bit

564
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,310
different.

565
00:28:31,310 --> 00:28:35,620
This time we're going to bring
the dam in from the wall.

566
00:28:35,620 --> 00:28:38,470
And we're going to
put a tiny opening.

567
00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:41,540
And I'm going to go
some more into the tank.

568
00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:42,890
And then another tiny opening.

569
00:28:42,890 --> 00:28:43,794
It could be the same.

570
00:28:43,794 --> 00:28:45,835
It's probably best to keep
it the same dimension.

571
00:28:45,835 --> 00:28:48,700


572
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:59,030
Now, in this case, the spacing,
d, is much less than lambda.

573
00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:00,960
d is much less than lambda.

574
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,590
And what happens in this case?

575
00:29:02,590 --> 00:29:05,430
When d is much less than lambda,
you don't get the shadow.

576
00:29:05,430 --> 00:29:07,780
You don't get something
like this instead, remember.

577
00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:08,760
You've got the rings.

578
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,840


579
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,170
This is called diffraction.

580
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:16,880
Diffraction.

581
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,620
And there is no way to
explain diffraction modeling

582
00:29:21,620 --> 00:29:23,750
water as a beam.

583
00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:28,500
You must implore the
wave-like behavior of water

584
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,450
in order to explain diffraction.

585
00:29:31,450 --> 00:29:40,010
Explain only by invoking
wave-like properties.

586
00:29:40,010 --> 00:29:43,250


587
00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:47,370
So with wave-like properties, we
get something that makes sense

588
00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:50,160
in terms of the data.

589
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,320
Now, let's do this
same experiment,

590
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,790
let's do this same experiment
on a metal crystal.

591
00:29:54,790 --> 00:29:57,940
So if you go back to
the gas discharge tube.

592
00:29:57,940 --> 00:30:01,120
Remember the gas discharge
tube that we were looking

593
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,020
at for lecture after lecture?

594
00:30:04,020 --> 00:30:08,280
If you take a look and go
through the energetics of it.

595
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,740
If you put one volt
across the plates,

596
00:30:10,740 --> 00:30:13,240
you know the energy is going
to be a product of charge times

597
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:13,870
voltage.

598
00:30:13,870 --> 00:30:17,210
And that's equal
to 1/2 mv squared.

599
00:30:17,210 --> 00:30:20,250
Which you know from 801
is p squared over 2m.

600
00:30:20,250 --> 00:30:23,670
And p is equal to h over lambda.

601
00:30:23,670 --> 00:30:26,580
Pretty soon you can come
up with the wavelength.

602
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:29,240
And that will give you the
wavelength of the electron.

603
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,410
This is a ballistic
electron now.

604
00:30:31,410 --> 00:30:32,640
See what I'm doing?

605
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,860
See, once I said
that this indicates

606
00:30:35,860 --> 00:30:37,980
that the electronic
in stationary orbit

607
00:30:37,980 --> 00:30:41,450
can be modeled as a wave
of a certain wavelength, so

608
00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:43,750
now the free electron.

609
00:30:43,750 --> 00:30:46,680
It's got m, it's got v,
there's Planck constant.

610
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,130
I can go ahead and
compute its wavelength.

611
00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:52,630
I can compute the
wavelength of a baseball.

612
00:30:52,630 --> 00:30:54,130
So, you go through it.

613
00:30:54,130 --> 00:30:58,970
And you get a value
of about 12 Angstroms.

614
00:30:58,970 --> 00:30:59,850
12 Angstroms.

615
00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:05,080
Now, if I want to see whether
there's wave-like properties,

616
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,850
I need to have a condition
that gives me diffraction.

617
00:31:07,850 --> 00:31:09,670
So I'm going to have
to find something

618
00:31:09,670 --> 00:31:13,160
that gives me a dam
with an opening that's

619
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,840
less than 12 Angstroms.

620
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,960
If I'm going to use 1 volt.

621
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,170
So what can I do?

622
00:31:21,170 --> 00:31:24,190
Well, turns out you're going
to learn this in greater detail

623
00:31:24,190 --> 00:31:27,200
later, but if this is
a crystal of nickel.

624
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,890
Crystal of nickel, the atoms
are arranged in regular arrays.

625
00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:34,550
And this is what the face of
nickel looks like, 4 atoms each

626
00:31:34,550 --> 00:31:35,410
at the corner.

627
00:31:35,410 --> 00:31:37,190
And one in the
center of that face.

628
00:31:37,190 --> 00:31:41,040
This distance is 3.53 Angstroms.

629
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,490
Perfect.

630
00:31:42,490 --> 00:31:43,170
Perfect.

631
00:31:43,170 --> 00:31:49,230
So what Davisson and Germer
did is, they irradiated this.

632
00:31:49,230 --> 00:31:54,590
They irradiated this first with
X-rays on the order of lambda,

633
00:31:54,590 --> 00:31:58,090
on the order of,
say, 10 Angstroms.

634
00:31:58,090 --> 00:31:59,960
And what did they get?

635
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:01,230
This is the output.

636
00:32:01,230 --> 00:32:02,130
This is the output.

637
00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:05,620
You get a diffraction pattern.

638
00:32:05,620 --> 00:32:07,940
It's a set of rings,
concentric rings.

639
00:32:07,940 --> 00:32:13,090
So this is the
X-ray diffraction.

640
00:32:13,090 --> 00:32:17,520
This is the X-ray
diffractogram, if you like.

641
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,140
And then, what did they do next?

642
00:32:20,140 --> 00:32:25,325
They irradiate the same
crystal with an electron beam.

643
00:32:25,325 --> 00:32:27,990


644
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:32,930
lambda of the electron
beam, 10 Angstroms.

645
00:32:32,930 --> 00:32:35,230
And what did they get?

646
00:32:35,230 --> 00:32:36,220
Are you ready?

647
00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:36,910
Drum roll.

648
00:32:36,910 --> 00:32:40,140


649
00:32:40,140 --> 00:32:44,140
Now, there is no way
that you can get a ring

650
00:32:44,140 --> 00:32:49,670
pattern from a beam of electrons
acting as a particle beam.

651
00:32:49,670 --> 00:32:53,550
The only explanation for
this is that the electrons

652
00:32:53,550 --> 00:32:58,020
were behaving as
waves of this value

653
00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:01,260
to give us the same spacing
as we got with X-rays.

654
00:33:01,260 --> 00:33:04,430
And you're comfortable
if I say that X-rays

655
00:33:04,430 --> 00:33:07,050
are a type of light.

656
00:33:07,050 --> 00:33:09,680
So, therefore, it's got
wave-like properties.

657
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,280
And it's got
particle-like properties.

658
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:12,700
Well, now I've
just made the point

659
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:16,820
that this is the
electron diffractogram.

660
00:33:16,820 --> 00:33:21,710
So this is evidence of
electron diffraction.

661
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:23,210
And this shook the world.

662
00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:24,680
Because now it's real.

663
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,190
There's no way you can
get this otherwise.

664
00:33:27,190 --> 00:33:31,970
This is electron diffraction.

665
00:33:31,970 --> 00:33:33,720
This was 1927.

666
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,110
1929, de Broglie
gets the Nobel Prize.

667
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:42,540
1937, Davisson gets
the Nobel Prize.

668
00:33:42,540 --> 00:33:47,710
So this means the wave-particle
duality is complete.

669
00:33:47,710 --> 00:33:52,130
It applies not only to light,
but it applies to matter.

670
00:33:52,130 --> 00:33:57,200
So, wave-particle
duality, they call it.

671
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,665
Wave-particle
duality is complete.

672
00:33:59,665 --> 00:34:02,770


673
00:34:02,770 --> 00:34:05,640
Matter can act as waves.

674
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,710
Electromagnetic radiation
can act as particles.

675
00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:12,230
So, sometimes people refer to
de Broglie's accomplishment

676
00:34:12,230 --> 00:34:15,370
as matter waves.

677
00:34:15,370 --> 00:34:15,974
Matter waves.

678
00:34:15,974 --> 00:34:18,810


679
00:34:18,810 --> 00:34:23,530
And what do you call the
behavior of billiard balls

680
00:34:23,530 --> 00:34:24,700
banging around and so on?

681
00:34:24,700 --> 00:34:26,500
We call that mechanics.

682
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,850
So now we're going
to use what might

683
00:34:28,850 --> 00:34:32,930
seem as an oxymoron,
contradiction, wave mechanics.

684
00:34:32,930 --> 00:34:36,120
Wave mechanics.

685
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,680
That means matter
behaving as a wave.

686
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,480
But still behaving as a matter.

687
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,200
So this is the dynamic.

688
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:48,170
So that's pretty
good for de Broglie.

689
00:34:48,170 --> 00:34:49,650
So let's go to number two.

690
00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:51,649
I said there were going
to be three people here.

691
00:34:51,649 --> 00:34:54,270
Number two is Werner Heisenberg.

692
00:34:54,270 --> 00:34:55,020
Werner Heisenberg.

693
00:34:55,020 --> 00:34:58,820


694
00:34:58,820 --> 00:35:01,640
Heisenberg studied with Pauli.

695
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,260


696
00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:06,960
Sommerfeld.

697
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,290
Did his Ph.D in Munich in 1923.

698
00:35:10,290 --> 00:35:14,750
Got his Ph.D with
Sommerfeld at the age of 22.

699
00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:17,765
And then he decided to
take a postdoc with Bohr.

700
00:35:17,765 --> 00:35:19,890
And he was working with
Bohr for a couple of years,

701
00:35:19,890 --> 00:35:22,020
he was feeling a
little bit burned-out.

702
00:35:22,020 --> 00:35:24,820
And decided to take
three weeks off.

703
00:35:24,820 --> 00:35:28,590
Went up to a deserted island
off the coast of Norway.

704
00:35:28,590 --> 00:35:31,450
Came back three weeks later with
the mathematical formulation

705
00:35:31,450 --> 00:35:33,700
of quantum mechanics.

706
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,950
I'm not kidding you, that's
what he did in his time

707
00:35:36,950 --> 00:35:39,330
off, to kind of unwind.

708
00:35:39,330 --> 00:35:44,650
And so one of the things that
he used as a critical piece

709
00:35:44,650 --> 00:35:49,350
of this derivation is that
the position and velocity

710
00:35:49,350 --> 00:35:53,000
of an electron cannot
be fully specified.

711
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,470
They cannot be fully specified
below certain limits.

712
00:35:56,470 --> 00:35:59,590
There's a threshold
below which we can't go.

713
00:35:59,590 --> 00:36:01,500
This is sort of
like, if I asked you

714
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,960
to time a 100-meter
sprint, which typically

715
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,670
takes less than 10 seconds.

716
00:36:06,670 --> 00:36:09,680
But I give you a clock, and
the nearest unit on the clock

717
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,910
is the minute.

718
00:36:10,910 --> 00:36:13,740
So you wouldn't be
able to distinguish.

719
00:36:13,740 --> 00:36:16,020
So, he says-- and
the reason for this

720
00:36:16,020 --> 00:36:18,580
is, it's a consequence
of quantization.

721
00:36:18,580 --> 00:36:20,340
Light itself is quantized.

722
00:36:20,340 --> 00:36:24,770
So, at some point you're asking
for a continuous splitting

723
00:36:24,770 --> 00:36:27,400
and splitting and splitting into
finer and finer time segments.

724
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,400
And you can't get there.

725
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,650
So we already knew
this from Planck.

726
00:36:30,650 --> 00:36:35,580
And so one of the ways that
he expressed the inability

727
00:36:35,580 --> 00:36:41,360
to go below a certain threshold
is the uncertainty principle.

728
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,220
The uncertainty principle.

729
00:36:43,220 --> 00:36:44,820
And that's
unfortunate that, see,

730
00:36:44,820 --> 00:36:46,580
it was originally
published in German.

731
00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:51,170
And the idea really is the
indeterminacy principle.

732
00:36:51,170 --> 00:36:53,220
But, English says uncertainty.

733
00:36:53,220 --> 00:36:57,350
So it's a limit to
determination, but there it is.

734
00:36:57,350 --> 00:36:59,410
And so one expression
of this is,

735
00:36:59,410 --> 00:37:01,310
the product of the velocity.

736
00:37:01,310 --> 00:37:03,284
Only, he wrote it in
terms of momentum.

737
00:37:03,284 --> 00:37:04,700
So the mass isn't
going to change.

738
00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,460
So, think of this as the
uncertainty and the velocity.

739
00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:10,350
And the uncertainty
in the position.

740
00:37:10,350 --> 00:37:13,290
So this is the
x-coordinate of particle.

741
00:37:13,290 --> 00:37:15,780
You can break its
trajectory into three

742
00:37:15,780 --> 00:37:16,910
orthogonal components.

743
00:37:16,910 --> 00:37:19,030
So the uncertainty
in the x direction

744
00:37:19,030 --> 00:37:23,290
of the momentum times the
uncertainty in the position

745
00:37:23,290 --> 00:37:27,550
is greater than or equal to
the Planck constant divided

746
00:37:27,550 --> 00:37:28,940
by 2 pi.

747
00:37:28,940 --> 00:37:30,800
The Planck constant
divided by 2 pi.

748
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,725


749
00:37:33,725 --> 00:37:35,800
And so what this
means is that we're

750
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:41,635
going to see a transition in
models from individual atoms.

751
00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:44,160


752
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,810
If we want to describe what
happens with individual atoms,

753
00:37:47,810 --> 00:37:50,330
we need what is known as
a deterministic model.

754
00:37:50,330 --> 00:37:51,790
Sort of, Newtonian mechanics.

755
00:37:51,790 --> 00:37:54,025
You tell me the initial
position and velocity.

756
00:37:54,025 --> 00:37:56,570
You tell me the forces, and I
can predict where it's going

757
00:37:56,570 --> 00:37:57,695
and where it's going to be.

758
00:37:57,695 --> 00:38:01,460
So that's deterministic models.

759
00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:06,730
So, deterministic models
describing individual atoms

760
00:38:06,730 --> 00:38:13,790
are going to give rise
to probabilistic models.

761
00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:17,150


762
00:38:17,150 --> 00:38:19,390
Probabilistic models.

763
00:38:19,390 --> 00:38:21,110
And probabilistic
models obviously

764
00:38:21,110 --> 00:38:22,970
can't be talking about
individual atoms.

765
00:38:22,970 --> 00:38:25,760
Must be talking about
ensembles of atoms.

766
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,360


767
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,560
So I can't say where any
individual atom will be,

768
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,240
because I don't have
the ability to do so.

769
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,280
But I can tell you, if you
give me a large number of them,

770
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,440
I'll tell you roughly
what the expected outcome

771
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,680
could be in terms of energy.

772
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,670
And ultimately predict
the spectrum, and so on.

773
00:38:43,670 --> 00:38:45,280
So instead of chicken
and egg we have

774
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,810
now chickenality and egg-ness.

775
00:38:47,810 --> 00:38:51,060
Everything is just sort of
getting a little bit murky.

776
00:38:51,060 --> 00:38:51,890
Little bit murky.

777
00:38:51,890 --> 00:38:53,770
You can do a
calculation on this.

778
00:38:53,770 --> 00:38:56,490
You can do a calculation on
this, a very simple take.

779
00:38:56,490 --> 00:39:00,110
Take the Bohr model and take
the ground state electron

780
00:39:00,110 --> 00:39:03,127
in hydrogen. n equals
1 in atomic hydrogen.

781
00:39:03,127 --> 00:39:04,960
And you know this is
about half an Angstrom.

782
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,180
So the distance across
here is 1 Angstrom.

783
00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:12,610
So make 1 Angstrom
your uncertainty,

784
00:39:12,610 --> 00:39:19,040
and you'll find that the
uncertainty in the momentum

785
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,100
is on the order of 15%.

786
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:24,005


787
00:39:24,005 --> 00:39:25,880
But what this is saying
is, when you get down

788
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,200
to atomic dimensions, you
can't just shine light on it

789
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,734
and reveal what's going on.

790
00:39:30,734 --> 00:39:32,650
Because you're going to
disturb the very thing

791
00:39:32,650 --> 00:39:34,240
you're trying to measure.

792
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,870
Some people say
that, every time you

793
00:39:36,870 --> 00:39:38,750
try to work at the
atomic level, it's

794
00:39:38,750 --> 00:39:40,510
as though you're trying
to take a picture

795
00:39:40,510 --> 00:39:43,185
with the sun at your back and
your shadow is in the picture.

796
00:39:43,185 --> 00:39:48,445
So you can't get there without
disturbing the very thing.

797
00:39:48,445 --> 00:39:49,820
Another way to
think about it is,

798
00:39:49,820 --> 00:39:51,847
the photons that are
capable of this resolution

799
00:39:51,847 --> 00:39:53,680
are going to have such
high energies they'll

800
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,070
knock the very thing
you're trying to measure.

801
00:39:56,070 --> 00:39:56,570
All right.

802
00:39:56,570 --> 00:40:00,680
He gets Nobel Prize in 1932.

803
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,140
And then the third one
is Erwin Schroedinger.

804
00:40:04,140 --> 00:40:05,130
Let's get him up here.

805
00:40:05,130 --> 00:40:09,110


806
00:40:09,110 --> 00:40:11,810
Erwin Schroedinger.

807
00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:14,640
Also an Austrian,
University of Zurich.

808
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,480
He too was burned out.

809
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,320
They get burned out, these guys.

810
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,940
So at Christmastime,
1925, took a vacation.

811
00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:26,100
At Villa Herwig, in Aurora.

812
00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:31,580
And comes back two weeks
later with the wave mechanics

813
00:40:31,580 --> 00:40:35,150
formulation, of
quantum mechanics.

814
00:40:35,150 --> 00:40:37,940
See, sometimes going
away on a vacation.

815
00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:41,720
So he took de Broglie's notion
of the electron as a wave

816
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,770
and wrote equations to
model wave-like behavior.

817
00:40:44,770 --> 00:40:48,535
So, let's look at
how to get there.

818
00:40:48,535 --> 00:40:51,850
And here's what he did.

819
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:54,630
So, you know, for
example, that we could

820
00:40:54,630 --> 00:40:56,820
start with a violin string.

821
00:40:56,820 --> 00:40:58,660
And it has a
geometric constraint.

822
00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:00,560
It must be fixed at both ends.

823
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,750
And if I pluck
that string, it can

824
00:41:02,750 --> 00:41:07,485
vibrate as long as it conforms
to the geometric constraint

825
00:41:07,485 --> 00:41:08,600
of a standing wave.

826
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,210
So here's one possibility.

827
00:41:11,210 --> 00:41:13,160
Wherein we would
call this n equals 1.

828
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,410
I have simply the
entire string vibrating

829
00:41:17,410 --> 00:41:18,930
in the matter that's shown.

830
00:41:18,930 --> 00:41:20,600
But here's a second possibility.

831
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,030
I could have it vibrating
as is shown here,

832
00:41:23,030 --> 00:41:24,880
n equals 2 with a
node in the middle

833
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,530
where that node
doesn't move at all.

834
00:41:26,530 --> 00:41:30,620
The string is stationary
at its mid-point.

835
00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:33,460
And what's the
characteristic here?

836
00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:36,160
This is operating at
a certain frequency.

837
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,650
Let's say it's middle C.
And this is the overtone.

838
00:41:39,650 --> 00:41:41,400
This is the first harmonic.

839
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,530
And it's going to
be an octave higher,

840
00:41:43,530 --> 00:41:47,050
because it's as though we
have two strings, each fixed.

841
00:41:47,050 --> 00:41:49,830
See, from a physics
standpoint I could literally

842
00:41:49,830 --> 00:41:53,100
cut this string in half and
fix it there, and this is now n

843
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,380
equals 1 for the half-length.

844
00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,140
So it's going to have the
same pitch as the half-length.

845
00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:00,425
Which means that this
is an octave higher,

846
00:42:00,425 --> 00:42:02,990
and this is going to be two
octaves higher, and so on.

847
00:42:02,990 --> 00:42:04,520
And all of these conform.

848
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,110
So you get a plurality
of solutions.

849
00:42:08,110 --> 00:42:10,890
You get a plurality
of solutions.

850
00:42:10,890 --> 00:42:13,780
And the solutions look
something like this.

851
00:42:13,780 --> 00:42:20,700
They'll eventually teach you
the string as a simple harmonic

852
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:22,700
oscillator.

853
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:27,960
Simple harmonic oscillator.

854
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,540
And it has equations
that look like this.

855
00:42:31,540 --> 00:42:33,165
If you want to
plot its position,

856
00:42:33,165 --> 00:42:38,250
this is x going from 0 to l.

857
00:42:38,250 --> 00:42:40,650
And this is the y-coordinate.

858
00:42:40,650 --> 00:42:44,060
So you can, for example,
write something like this.

859
00:42:44,060 --> 00:42:48,380
So, the function
will look like this.

860
00:42:48,380 --> 00:42:52,320
Some pre-multiplier
times cosine of kx

861
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:57,190
plus another pre-multiplier
b times the sine of kx.

862
00:42:57,190 --> 00:43:01,620
And the geometry will
dictate that the value of k

863
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:03,720
is n pi over l.

864
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:06,020
So, pi over l is the geometry.

865
00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:10,430
And n takes multiple values.

866
00:43:10,430 --> 00:43:13,940
Just as you see here, there's
not a unique solution.

867
00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:15,470
So listen carefully.

868
00:43:15,470 --> 00:43:19,690
Wave equation,
plurality of solutions.

869
00:43:19,690 --> 00:43:22,330
But subject to some constraints.

870
00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:23,670
Subject to some constraints.

871
00:43:23,670 --> 00:43:27,250
So what Schroedinger did
is, he wrote a wave equation

872
00:43:27,250 --> 00:43:33,720
to describe the motion
of electron in its orbit.

873
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:35,210
And guess what he gets?

874
00:43:35,210 --> 00:43:37,860
He gets a plurality
of solutions.

875
00:43:37,860 --> 00:43:40,670
And when you look at the
plurality of solutions,

876
00:43:40,670 --> 00:43:42,870
the plurality of
solutions ultimately

877
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:50,970
map into what we know as the
distinct values of n, l, m

878
00:43:50,970 --> 00:43:52,180
and s.

879
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:54,030
See, this is the
one-dimensional.

880
00:43:54,030 --> 00:43:57,990
So this is giving us
n numbers. n equals 1,

881
00:43:57,990 --> 00:44:00,210
this is now n equals 2.

882
00:44:00,210 --> 00:44:02,020
So I'm getting
quantum numbers here.

883
00:44:02,020 --> 00:44:04,130
Now, if I did this
in three dimensions,

884
00:44:04,130 --> 00:44:06,040
I'd have a plurality
of quantum numbers.

885
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:10,480
And Schroedinger gets us all
the way to n, l, m and s.

886
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,010
And so here's what
it looks like.

887
00:44:13,010 --> 00:44:15,320
This is the equation,
it's a wave equation,

888
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,480
so there's a double
derivative in space.

889
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,700
There's a forcing function.

890
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:23,070
And this is i, square root of
minus 1 in a time base here.

891
00:44:23,070 --> 00:44:26,610
So it's a harmonic
kind of equation.

892
00:44:26,610 --> 00:44:29,249
Psi is the wave function,
it's an abstract concept

893
00:44:29,249 --> 00:44:31,040
but we'll show you how
to make sense of it.

894
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,940
And these are the
various solutions,

895
00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:35,480
the plurality of solutions.

896
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,930
And we can now map those into
what we know as 1s, 2s, 2px,

897
00:44:39,930 --> 00:44:42,720
2py, 2pz, et cetera, et cetera.

898
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,090
And you see this number a sub 0.

899
00:44:45,090 --> 00:44:46,660
That's our Bohr radius.

900
00:44:46,660 --> 00:44:48,710
Comes right out
of the equations.

901
00:44:48,710 --> 00:44:51,890
0.529 Angstroms.

902
00:44:51,890 --> 00:44:54,910
So, this is quite good.

903
00:44:54,910 --> 00:44:58,770
But, as I said, the psi
is the wave function.

904
00:44:58,770 --> 00:45:00,620
Or psi, however you
want to call this.

905
00:45:00,620 --> 00:45:03,090
This is called
the wave function.

906
00:45:03,090 --> 00:45:04,530
Wave function.

907
00:45:04,530 --> 00:45:07,005
And we have plurality
of solutions.

908
00:45:07,005 --> 00:45:10,542


909
00:45:10,542 --> 00:45:11,750
We call these Eigenfunctions.

910
00:45:11,750 --> 00:45:14,400


911
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:15,840
Eigenfunctions.

912
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,860
And the closest we can
get to something physical

913
00:45:19,860 --> 00:45:24,110
is the product of psi and
its complex conjugate.

914
00:45:24,110 --> 00:45:27,240
And that is related
to the probability

915
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,560
of finding the electron.

916
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,222
Probability of
finding the electron.

917
00:45:33,222 --> 00:45:36,180
Which, in essence, gives the
boundaries of the orbitals.

918
00:45:36,180 --> 00:45:39,030
So now I'm going to put, we're
going to get a Cartesian shape.

919
00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:40,480
I told you, 1s, 2s.

920
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:41,530
What do they look like?

921
00:45:41,530 --> 00:45:42,900
Here's what they look like.

922
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:46,696
So these are the square of
the wave function plotted.

923
00:45:46,696 --> 00:45:48,570
So this is in a radial
distribution function.

924
00:45:48,570 --> 00:45:51,220
It's only in one direction,
out from the radius.

925
00:45:51,220 --> 00:45:53,590
Now, if you whip
this around in 3-D,

926
00:45:53,590 --> 00:45:55,680
you'll generate the surface.

927
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,737
But already you
can see, here's 1s,

928
00:45:57,737 --> 00:45:59,320
and it peaks at about
1/2 an Angstrom.

929
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,240
And here's 2s, and it peaks
at 4 times the Bohr radius.

930
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:07,020
And psi squared
3s about 9 times.

931
00:46:07,020 --> 00:46:08,750
This is from your book.

932
00:46:08,750 --> 00:46:09,830
So it's a maximum.

933
00:46:09,830 --> 00:46:11,040
But there's some uncertainty.

934
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:16,040
See, it's not a simple line
fixed at 0.529 Angstroms.

935
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:17,490
This is another way of plotting.

936
00:46:17,490 --> 00:46:19,120
So these are spherical.

937
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,190
What we were calling circular
now becomes namely spherical.

938
00:46:22,190 --> 00:46:25,400
And there's this node here.

939
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,500
This is the p orbitals.

940
00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:29,960
They're dumbbell-shaped.

941
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,400
With two lobes.

942
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,210
And if you have a
single electron,

943
00:46:33,210 --> 00:46:34,520
it doesn't reside in one lobe.

944
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,755
It can jump from one
side to the other.

945
00:46:36,755 --> 00:46:39,380
You might say, well, how does it
get from one lobe to the other

946
00:46:39,380 --> 00:46:43,875
when halfway between,
there's a nodal plane.

947
00:46:43,875 --> 00:46:46,900
It has zero probability.

948
00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:50,660
Well, it's behaving as a wave.

949
00:46:50,660 --> 00:46:53,630
Behaves as a particle, you
can't get through a wall

950
00:46:53,630 --> 00:46:55,320
that says zero permission.

951
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,000
That's how, you can transfer
energy from here to here

952
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,010
and have that node's
perfectly stationary.

953
00:47:02,010 --> 00:47:03,140
Anybody skip rope?

954
00:47:03,140 --> 00:47:05,919
You know how this works.

955
00:47:05,919 --> 00:47:07,710
Now, this is where I
quarrel with the book.

956
00:47:07,710 --> 00:47:09,560
This is another drawing.

957
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,706
But I'm uncomfortable
with the fact

958
00:47:11,706 --> 00:47:13,080
that they chose
different colors.

959
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,190
Because I think to the
first time learner,

960
00:47:15,190 --> 00:47:17,830
you might be tempted to think,
well, one electron lives here

961
00:47:17,830 --> 00:47:19,250
and the other
electron lives here.

962
00:47:19,250 --> 00:47:21,660
No, the electron,
if there's only one,

963
00:47:21,660 --> 00:47:23,020
it can go from one to the other.

964
00:47:23,020 --> 00:47:25,186
If there are two, they can
go from one to the other.

965
00:47:25,186 --> 00:47:28,020
And, see, they do this
all the way through.

966
00:47:28,020 --> 00:47:31,645
So please don't start
rationalizing in your mind that

967
00:47:31,645 --> 00:47:34,490
one electron goes in the yellow
and the other electron goes

968
00:47:34,490 --> 00:47:37,440
in the grey.

969
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,080
There's the d.

970
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:38,871
Aren't they pretty?

971
00:47:38,871 --> 00:47:43,300


972
00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:47,700
If you find the f
orbitals, that's wild.

973
00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:50,660
So I think this is probably
a good place to stop.

974
00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:52,119
We've got a few minutes here.

975
00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:53,910
If you want to read
more about uncertainty,

976
00:47:53,910 --> 00:47:56,350
this is a very nice
book by David Peat that

977
00:47:56,350 --> 00:47:59,930
goes into the meanings,
including this indeterminacy,

978
00:47:59,930 --> 00:48:01,210
and so on.

979
00:48:01,210 --> 00:48:04,050
Good book here on hydrogen.

980
00:48:04,050 --> 00:48:05,200
Please, I don't want noise.

981
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,170
We've got, still,
a few more minutes.

982
00:48:07,170 --> 00:48:10,170
Still got a few more minutes.

983
00:48:10,170 --> 00:48:12,000
This book here talks
about hydrogen.

984
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,500
Goes right back to Democritus.

985
00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:19,980
One chapter is a beautiful
thing on the use of hydrogen

986
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:22,400
as a potential fuel.

987
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:23,670
All the Bohr and whatnot.

988
00:48:23,670 --> 00:48:27,120
This is a play that won the
Tony Award in the year 2000.

989
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,040
Written by Michael Frayn.

990
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:34,350
And it's about the fact that
Niels Bohr was the mentor

991
00:48:34,350 --> 00:48:36,140
to Werner Heisenberg.

992
00:48:36,140 --> 00:48:41,500
And now it's 1941, the
Nazis have invaded Denmark.

993
00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:45,530
And Bohr is essentially
waiting to get out

994
00:48:45,530 --> 00:48:52,560
of Denmark before the war
overtakes the rest of Europe.

995
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,970
Meanwhile, Heisenberg is now
the head of the Nazi equivalent

996
00:48:55,970 --> 00:48:57,550
of the Manhattan Project.

997
00:48:57,550 --> 00:49:00,770
And he goes to Copenhagen
to visit his old mentor.

998
00:49:00,770 --> 00:49:01,942
That's a fact.

999
00:49:01,942 --> 00:49:02,650
They have dinner.

1000
00:49:02,650 --> 00:49:03,800
That's a fact.

1001
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:04,730
They go for a walk.

1002
00:49:04,730 --> 00:49:05,780
That's a fact.

1003
00:49:05,780 --> 00:49:08,090
They never speak to each
other after that night.

1004
00:49:08,090 --> 00:49:09,490
That's a fact.

1005
00:49:09,490 --> 00:49:12,290
So the question is,
what went on that night.

1006
00:49:12,290 --> 00:49:15,680
And that's what Michael Frayn
uses as the dramatic point

1007
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:16,720
of departure.

1008
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:21,450
So, did Heisenberg go to
Bohr to get Bohr's opinion

1009
00:49:21,450 --> 00:49:23,250
about nuclear weaponry?

1010
00:49:23,250 --> 00:49:25,280
Did he try to find out
whether the Allies were

1011
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,590
working on a bomb?

1012
00:49:26,590 --> 00:49:29,870
Did he go to say, look, we
should on both sides not

1013
00:49:29,870 --> 00:49:32,620
develop nuclear weaponry?

1014
00:49:32,620 --> 00:49:34,530
What went on in
that conversation?

1015
00:49:34,530 --> 00:49:37,610
And so you see
Bohr at the center.

1016
00:49:37,610 --> 00:49:40,560
There's Heisenberg
who's the one electron.

1017
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,860
And there's Margaret,
who is Bohr's wife, who

1018
00:49:42,860 --> 00:49:44,100
was the observer.

1019
00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:47,940
And so there's the play
between the uncertainty

1020
00:49:47,940 --> 00:49:50,835
in quantum mechanics and the
uncertainty in human relations.

1021
00:49:50,835 --> 00:49:53,090
It's a really nice play.

1022
00:49:53,090 --> 00:49:55,790
Here's a rendition of it.

1023
00:49:55,790 --> 00:49:59,680
This is Stephen Rea playing
Bohr, Francesca Annis playing

1024
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:04,230
Margaret Bohr, and playing
Werner Heisenberg is, do you

1025
00:50:04,230 --> 00:50:12,260
recognize him,
it's Daniel Craig.

1026
00:50:12,260 --> 00:50:16,080
This is a book that came out not
too long ago about Heisenberg.

1027
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,100
A lot of controversy about him.

1028
00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:21,480
Some people accused him
of being a collaborator.

1029
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,330
Other people say that he
was absolutely brilliant

1030
00:50:24,330 --> 00:50:27,450
in the right amount
of foot-dragging.

1031
00:50:27,450 --> 00:50:29,720
He did not want to give
Hitler nuclear weapons.

1032
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:32,670
If he'd been a total
disaster he would

1033
00:50:32,670 --> 00:50:35,230
have been replaced
by somebody who

1034
00:50:35,230 --> 00:50:37,100
might have been more zealous.

1035
00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:39,610
And if he went too fast,
he might have figured out

1036
00:50:39,610 --> 00:50:41,430
how to make nuclear weapons.

1037
00:50:41,430 --> 00:50:45,690
So, very interesting
book about him.

1038
00:50:45,690 --> 00:50:47,140
And here's a nice photo.

1039
00:50:47,140 --> 00:50:47,937
This is Bohr.

1040
00:50:47,937 --> 00:50:49,020
This is Werner Heisenberg.

1041
00:50:49,020 --> 00:50:50,960
And this is Wolfgang Pauli.

1042
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,430
Undoubtedly talking
about what goes

1043
00:50:53,430 --> 00:50:56,260
on when you pluck that string.

1044
00:50:56,260 --> 00:50:57,693
So we'll see you on Wednesday.

1045
00:50:57,693 --> 00:50:58,193