Physical Chemistry 2, Part 25:  Slater's Rules, and Trial Wavefunctions
Channel: StrangerThanFic
Date: 2022-06-21

Today, we'll delve deeper into the concept of the Effective Nuclear Charge, and we'll find out that we can get a good approximation of it using Slater's Rules.  This will help us make sense of some results we got in the last video!  It'll also lead us into a discussion of how best to approximate a wavefunction for a multi-electron system -- it turns out that adding together a series of hydrogen wavefunctions might not be the best approach!