Hi everyone!
I was wondering if you guys could explain to me how we can determine the number of nodal planes in an orbital? I know that the s orbital has no nodal planes, but how would we know how many nodal planes there will be for the other orbitals?
Thank you so much!
Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
P-orbitals have one nodal plane, and d-orbitals have two nodal planes.
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
Hi! In a review session this week, one of the TA's mentioned that the calculation for the number of nodal planes is [n(principal quantum #)-1]. They also said that they expected that we would only need to know about nodes for the s and p, so for s its 0 and for p its 1. Hope this helps!
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
s-orbitals have 0 nodal planes, p-orbitals have 1 nodal plane, d-orbitals have 2 nodal planes, and f-orbitals have 3 nodal planes.
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
You must memorize!
s has 0 nodal planes,
p has 1 nodal plane,
d has 2 nodal planes
f has 3 nodal planes.
s has 0 nodal planes,
p has 1 nodal plane,
d has 2 nodal planes
f has 3 nodal planes.
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
A nodal plane is a plane at which the probability of the electron existing there is 0.
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Re: Orbitals and Their Nodal Planes
205323697 wrote:what doe it actually mean to have a nodal plane?
It indicates that there is no probability of finding an electron on that plane.
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