Creative Assignment Chemistry 1050 Chantel Matthews-Burry #200548865
A song about the Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom:
Copyright Music: Space Oddity performed by David Bowie; Published by Onward Music Limited;
1969
Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
It’s only a probability distribution
We must understand the behavior of the photons
Solved by the Schrodinger Equation
Approximates electron location
Given the Quantum numbers, it will all come into view
Size, energy, shape, orientation
Configurations… Orbitals are conveyed
Follow Hund’s rules and Pauli’s exclusion to make it fair
Electrons must occupy an orbital before they pair
Understanding the electrons is the goal
Original Model by Bohr
The double slit experiment was the way
confirmed the wave-particle model we use today
For HERE…………
We determine electron position like Schrodinger can
The quantum world unfurled
A wave or a particle, it’s true,
And there’s nothing we can do
Configurations, they come in many styles
Of how the orbitals will be filled
S, P, D F, are sub shells, where electrons go
Probability distribution, no one really knows
Photoelectric effect and diffraction
Ultraviolent catastrophe, there’s something wrong
De Broglie’s wavelength and momentum
Now we have a solution
Wave particle duality of the electron
For now. . . we can now solve like Schrodinger can
Heisenburg and the future’s uncertain too
But still so much unknown it’s true