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CollectiveRocker
Dec3-04, 06:03 PM
I realize that electron probability density is the probability of finding an electron in a given volume, but as I was working on some homework, I wasn't sure how this fact would apply. Under what circumstances is an atomic electron's probability-density distribution spherically symmetric?

Dr Transport
Dec3-04, 07:16 PM
When the wave function's angular quantum number is 0 the probaility density will not depend on any angular coordinates.

CollectiveRocker
Dec3-04, 08:16 PM
Thank you. Why exactly does this work?