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Mitchell and Troy

Dear Mitchell

Hey my name is Troy Sims.I am from Slovakia. I expect to do well on this project and i am very experienced with computers

Hello Troy, my name is Mitchell Morris. I am from Laguna Beach, CA. I don't just expect us to do well on this project, I know we will do well on this project. Also, I am very skilled with a computer.

Erwin Schrödinger took the thoughts of Bohr and reformed them. Erwin developed the probability function for the Hydrogen atom (and a few others). The probability function basically describes a cloud looking region where the electron is probably going to be found. It can not say with much certainty, where the electron actually is, or where it is going to go.Clarity through fuzziness, is one way to describe the idea. The model based on this probability equation can best be described as the cloud model.

The cloud model represents a sort of history of where the electron has probably been and where it is going to be going. The red dot in the middle represents the nucleus while the red dot around the outside represents where the electron was at any given time. As the electron moves it leaves a trace of where it was.This collection of traces quickly begins to resemble a cloud. The probable locations of the electron predicted by Schrödinger's equation happen to form with the locations specified in Bohr's model.

Dear Mitchell

That is wonderful that you are good with computers so we shall do well on this project. I happen to be an expert on the cloud model.

It is hard to give credit to one single person for the creation of the cloud model as you stated. In fact it was a bunch of different people Ernest Rutherford found that the atom is mostly empty space with a very small but heavy nucleus in the center but it was **W**erner Heisenberg was really the person that determined that the only way to describe the location of electrons is as a probability distribution, and this led to the idea of an "electron cloud" where you can only talk about the relative probability of find an electron in a certain volume. This is really what quantum mechanics is all about! Other important people involved in the development of quantum mechanics were Erwin Schrodinger and Louis de Broglie, among others.