Schrodinger's+Model

=﻿ __Schrodinger's Model__=

__Erwin Schrodinger__
Erwin Shrodinger was born on August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria to Rudolf and Georgine Shrodinger. He was a student at the University of Vienna between 1906-1910 and throughout his life he was professor at many different Universities. He had a diverse range of academic interests some include, botany, German poetry, painting, ancient literature, and thermodynamics but he is most famous for his work on atomic physics. In 1926 he developed his most praised work, Shrodinger’s wave equation. This lent to the creation of his atomic model. In 1933 he shared a Nobel Prize with Paul Adrein Maurice Dirac for the work on quantum mechanics. He continued to work on physics for the rest of his life. He died at the age of 74 on the 4th of January 1961.

__His Model__
His model is very similar to Bohr’s model. It has a nucleus in the middle that consents of neutrons and protons and the electrons orbit around the nucleus. Unlike Bohr’s model the electrons don’t orbit in determinable pattern base on energy but are impossible to truly determine. To show this, Schrodinger made the electron cloud that represents the probable location of the electron, the denser the cloud the more probable of an electron being there. He developed the cloud because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The principle states that you can only know the exact location of an object or the velocity.



__Pros and Cons__
What this model gets right is the electron cloud ability to show the lack of certainty of where the electrons are. It also got the correct subatomic particles (neutron, proton, and electrons) and the contents and location of the nucleus.

Two problems of the model is that it doesn’t show the number electrons the atom has and since it was made before the discover of leptons and quarks, the models doesn’t include them. Worked on by Caleb McLean