Hydrogen atom

A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen.

Its parts are a single negatively-charged electron that circles a single positively-charged nucleus of the hydrogen atom. The nucleus of hydrogen consists of only a single proton (in the case of hydrogen-1 or protium), or it may also include one or more neutrons (giving deuterium, tritium, and other isotopes). The electron is bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force. Hydrogen-1, also known as protium or "light hydrogen" is the main component of natural hydrogen.

Related pages
Hydrogen
quantum mechanics

References

Section 4.2 deals with the hydrogen atom specifically, but all of Chapter 4 is relevant.

Other websites
Physics of hydrogen atom on Scienceworld
Visualizing Atomic Orbitals
Applet which allows viewing of all sorts of hydrogenic orbitals
The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions, Probability Density "pictures"
Basic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom 

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