Answer to Question #296943 in Physical Chemistry for Libina k

Question

Describe the physical significance of the centrifugal term in the radial part of Schrodinger's equation of H atom

Answer 1

The centrifugal force is the force (non-real force) that is needed to make things work as you would think in a reference frame that is accelerating.

The Schrödinger equation helped them to detect where the electron could be at any given moment. The significance was that electrons had extremely unpredictable behaviors, but physicist Erwin Schrödinger's experiment tamed the situation