From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   x wrote:   
   > Once upon a time in college I learned a while back   
   > how you get the shape of the orbitals (s, p, d, f   
   > and more -theoretical - g, h, etc).   
   >   
   > Simple and elegant.  All you have is different   
   > 'nodes' or areas of low electron probability   
   > density, in the waveform.   
      
   (If it were that simple, it would be taught in high school.)   
      
   In the _wavefunction_ [1]; more precisely, the _modulus squared_ of it which   
   (according to the Born rule) gives the probability density (of position).   
      
   [1] There is no waveform here; we merely can describe anything that has a   
   wave-like shape by a wavefunction since that is the solution of a wave   
   equation.  (In the case of quantum mechanics, for a wave of probability.)   
      
   > Basic question for those of you that are younger than 30 or 40.   
   >   
   > Did you learn in high school why the orbitals in chemistry have the shapes   
   > that they do?   
      
   I am slightly older than 40, but I do not recall having been given an   
   explanation for the orbital shapes in Chemistry class (minor) in my German   
   high school ("Gymnasium").   
      
      
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