{"id":1409,"date":"2024-06-21T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T17:13:40","slug":"orbitals-not-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2024\/06\/21\/orbitals-not-orbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbitals not Orbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">If the electron was orbiting they would be called \u201c<strong>orbits<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">The word \u201corbital\u201d therefore correctly indicates that they are\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0orbits (but suggests that they are related to what\u00a0<em>would<\/em> be\u00a0the allowed orbits\u00a0<em>if<\/em>\u00a0the electron was a particle with the only quantum effect being to confine it to discrete energy levels).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-are-the-atomic-orbitals-called-orbitals-if-an-electron-is-not-orbiting-the-nucleus\/answer\/Alan-Cooper-5\">(1000) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to Why are the atomic orbitals called &#8216;orbitals&#8217; if an electron is not orbiting the nucleus? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the electron was orbiting they would be called \u201corbits\u201d. The word \u201corbital\u201d therefore correctly indicates that they are\u00a0not\u00a0orbits (but suggests that they are related to what\u00a0would be\u00a0the allowed orbits\u00a0if\u00a0the electron was a particle with the only quantum effect being to confine it to discrete energy levels). Source: (1000) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to Why are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2024\/06\/21\/orbitals-not-orbits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orbitals not Orbits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}