I looked into it quite a bit more. I have concluded, when using the radial coordinate system, that the density increases per unit volume toward the center of the 1s orbital, but the probability goes to zero. The probability goes to zero because the volume goes to zero.
the squared wave...
Yea I get all of that. I understand how there is no surface area when r = 0, such that the radial probability will be 0 at 0 (summed over all angles).
You still haven't directly answered my question though. Can you find an electron in the exact middle of an S orbital?
I read some where...
I have been fighting about this with my inorganic chemistry professor for the past week. As far as I can tell when you take the radial wave function for the 1 s orbital, square it, then times it by r^2, you get a zero probability to find the electron in the middle of the 1s orbital, and a local...