High schoolToward undergraduate chemistry12 minLesson 31 of 33

Introduction to atomic orbitals

s, p, d orbitals: geometry, quantum numbers. Why they explain covalent bonding better.

What this lesson covers

  1. Why orbitals? Limits of the Bohr model
  2. Quantum numbers
  3. Geometric shapes of orbitals
  4. Filling rules
  5. Orbitals and covalent bonding

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