Laguerre Polynomials

[@jaybae8056]

man, oh man!!!!!!! you have saved me some headaches. hands down, the best tutorials. thank you so much.

[@TherealElijhawatkins]

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[@siddharth2873]

Sir I find your lectures quite helpful for my quantum chemistry course in my masters program ,can you please let me know which books or texts you use as reference. Thank you

[@PhysicalChemistry]

I would recommend the book by McQuarrie and Simon. That's what I have my students use (at least for chapters where my own draft textbook is not yet complete)

[@zahirmuhammad9133]

how to find out the normalization constant?

[@PhysicalChemistry]

The radial wavefunctions are normalized so that ∫ r² Rₙₗ Rₙₗ dr = 1. (The integral runs from 0 to ∞.)

[@manuelgolindanob.5381]

so, alpha is equalt to 2l+1 and k is equal to n-l-1 right? Thank you! it worked!

[@PhysicalChemistry]

You're welcome, glad you figured it out

[@samandalaiz8268]

Just playing again to say thank you. I got so much time wasted following a wrong formula reading puri sharma inorganic's Quantum which is chap 1 too 😂

[@PhysicalChemistry]

You're welcome. Laguerre polynomials in chapter 1 seems like a steep leaning curve!!

[@samandalaiz8268]

@@PhysicalChemistry Indian authors have no/little flow unlike old foreign books, that's why many students are confused in Chemistry

[@PhysicalChemistry]

@@samandalaiz8268 Some authors writing in English are the same way, I can assure you. The good old books are the ones that have passed the test of time