1. This computer visualization activity is designed to help upper division undergraduate students compute and visualize the full quantum mechanical solution to the Hydrogen atom.
  2. Students use a Maple Worksheet or a Mathematica Notebook to visualize the probability density of the electron in the Hydrogen atom as well as generate animations of the hydrogen orbitals they've seen in chemistry.
  3. The whole class wrap-up discussion summarizes the solution of the Hydrogen atom with computer simulations, connecting the newly learned physics with the familiar models from introductory chemistry.

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