Understanding the Atom: Intro Quantum and Electron Configurations (English) 

Agreed. Cemented my understanding quite well. Wish my college quantum electronics lecturer understood this

Soon I will teach this to my little brother. Thanks a lot

@Dr Deuteron Actually, I think I will add concrete

@Dr Deuteron Noted Sir

@Dr Deuteron İ perfectly understand your position. However you should note that most commenters here are not professional chemists or physicists but people who interacted with this material in high school or college. TBH my lecturers/teachers never presented the material in a way that would stimulate interest or understanding. I always wondered whether she understood the topic. The video has sought to simplify (maybe oversimplified) the material using analogies anyone would understand. That's why it has gotten such positive reviews from most commenters here. While I think that your efforts at providing detail are laudable, I believe that these efforts would be more useful if directed at encouraging teachers/lecturers in schools and colleges to better teach the subject matter. If they did, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.

When I went to high school, the concept and understanding was different. We actually learned orbits, not orbitals, and electron position and notation wasn't as it is now.

Hmmmm, what if the reason we can’t pin down the location of the electron is because it passes through 5 dimensional space. What we observe is the state of the electron at each snapshot in time. In the double slit experiment the electron takes all possible paths through to the target. We only know which path it takes if we observe it. What if that is why we can’t also pin down the electron orbital properly Our 4 dimensional world is a shadow of the 5 D world outside of ours. Just as the 2D world is a shadow of the 3D world. Our 4 th dimension, time, may be a shadow of the fifth dimension. Time itself seems one dimensional. It only goes one way, from our perspective. Top theoretical physicists say that there is no real reason why time could not flow backward. Maybe it does, we just can’t see, or observe it because we are one dimensional, we only observe the world in the forward arrow of time. An electron seems to transcend the physical,world taking al, possible paths through the two slits if not observed. Maybe the electron cloud,if observed properly, can give us a hint of what the fifth dimension may look like. Kind of like trying to observe a three dimensional world from the surface of a two dimensional shape. Just some thoughts.

@@openwaters2988 Do a search for the "One electron universe", where theory suggests that every single electron is the same electron, that travels through space and time, to be in all places at once. It might go a little way to define further what you're saying.

Utetopia yes, I’ve heard of that, couldn’t find the name of the theory though, thank you. That’s sort of what I am referring to. I will check it out.

My school was for marks only.now I get the worst marks.

the hilarious bit is, all these ppl telling you "this is how it is", and absolutely all of it is conjecture that has little evidence, none of it observational evidence, and only a single maths proof to support it.

U just summarised the whole thing!

And then schrödinger becomes to say “yea!!! may be is there or may be is not, to be sure don’t look at it”.

Okay this is all I want to know If all the previous things were wrong why did we learn them.

​@@nihaal7750 Wrong is not really 100% correct either. It's just different shades of detail, some concepts are easier to understand if you use the simpler concepts of the atom. So that's why, the more you move into other subjects you will need more detailed (and more accurate) definitions of the atom for the other theory to make sense.

Nobody is too old to learn... trust me you will learn a lot more if you live hundred years later from now

classic "i never payed attention and now complain"

@@bobfake3831 No. I slaved over lectures and office hours to try to understand hybridization. This video was the first time it simply clicked. I wouldn't blame my professors or TAs as everyone learns differently.

Hahahahahaha!

me too

physicist: where are you? electron: im at the s orbital at once, until you measured me einstein: you are mocking me. bohr: you are both alive and dead at the same time einstein: does the moon not exist when your not looking at it? physicist: ok, let's adjourn..

There were "proper visuals" years ago. I have a physics degree from 40 years ago and the non-existent visuals you refer are there in plain sight. The problem is that you didn't bother looking for them.

@@johnpearson3761 ouch

@@johnpearson3761 what you say is true, but still some responsibility goes yo the teacher as well. Instead of drawing at a board they can use a projector or smart board for animations. Or even print outs in class.

That is exactly the way to describe science... Simple and complicated. We might decide to settle for the simple or we strive on to simplify the complexiities

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Thank you for your feedback! And We will look into that topic for a future video.+Rahul Gupta

i agree like this ocmment like comment1 !! !

real!!