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Raman Choudhary
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i am a beginner and was going through (Donald Mcquarie's "quantum chemistry" ) some discussion regarding orbitals of H-atom but i didn't get the logic behind writing px and py orbitals as linear combinations of spherical harmonics?
according to what i understood, a given spherical harmonic in itself represents a orbital depending upon n,l,m ..then how can we write a spherical harmonic as a sum of other two or spherical harmonics with same n,l.
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according to what i understood, a given spherical harmonic in itself represents a orbital depending upon n,l,m ..then how can we write a spherical harmonic as a sum of other two or spherical harmonics with same n,l.
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