Developed Theory for The Hydrogen Atom Theory of the Hydrogen Atom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For any hydrogenic ion with nuclear charge Z V(𝐫) = -Ze²/r V(𝐫) = -e²/r Eigenfunctions in spherical coordinates: Ψₑₗₘ(r,θ,φ) = Rₑₗ(r) Yₗₘ(θ,φ) = Uₑₗ/r Yₗₘ(θ,φ) Derived from first principles the wave equation of an electron in the hydrogen atom. - Start with Dirac Notation - transform to eigenvalue equation in position space Replace with known special quantities - replace pieces with function F and find derivatives F = ∑ Cₖρᵏ pic 3 first take had factors that needed to be fixed - Led to the Laguerre Polynomials These are infinite, though, so - Force Laguerre Polynomial solutions to truncate