An electron in a hydrogen atom near a proton. The electron doesn’t really notice that it could have a low potential energy by going to the proton… they’re too far away. So the probability density function (blue) looks like it did before.
An electron in a hydrogen atom near a proton. The electron doesn’t really notice that it could have a low potential energy by going to the proton… they’re too far away. So the probability density function (blue) looks like it did before.