[beetz]

Can someone please explain how to draw orbitals for an atom and which planes they lie in. especially the p orbitals the 3 different ways they lie and how they are named i.e pxy etc.

Can someone tell me how to draw the 2pz angular function and state what this tells me about the electron density in a pz orbital.
So that I can then work out the others.

Any help is much appreciated cheers! :)

[Malcolmgrad]

s orbitals are ball shaped the others are more comples and need to be drawn in a three dimensional way that makes them appear to come out of the page.
its like a graph but u need a w,x,y,z axis to draw them in space. They are oval shaped but d orbitals have a ring around them()