Spherical Harmonics

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

Spherical harmonics give the angular part of the solution to Laplace's equation in spherical coordinates. They arise in many practical situations, notably atomic orbitals, particle scattering processes and antenna radiation patterns.

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


Snapshots


Details

In physical settings, the degree is normally called the orbital quantum number and the order the magnetic quantum number.



Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send