Need help with making a 3D model of an atom

[f6fhellcat13]

Guys, he is talking about modelling probability spaces, not simplistic ring type orbits.

In that case, he could carve them out of faom.

[Zytek_Fan]

Guys, he is talking about modelling probability spaces, not simplistic ring type orbits.

Nasty, nasty assignment. Why are they asking you to do this?

So we can "understand" the orbitals.

Which I don't understand

[f6fhellcat13]

You'd have thought that by highschool you wouldn't need to do art projects anymore.

[Kitdy]

This is going to be ridiculously complex if you are meant to show them properly in 3D. I am thinking of it now and I can't think of an easy way of showing them to be honest.

This is an idiotic assignment frankly as making a sculpture of the atom is not what I'd consider high-school level material.

I don't blame you for not understanding orbitals really - calculating their shape I'd imagine is ridiculously complex - maybe I will do that in my field some day - let's hope!

Ok I am looking at the orbitals and realise you are not gonna have a lot of fun if you are going to 4s. The overlapping and chaos of all the orbitals and things piled on top each other up to 4s is gonna be... interesting to say the least.

I say you take the Einstein path and say god does not play dice with the universe and make the Bohr model.

[Zytek_Fan]

I'm doing this relatively easy one lol



edit: But multiply it by 2, since I have to do the third or fourth row

[Kitdy]

But you gotta layer the other layers on top of that yeah?