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  • 11-19-2012, 07:30 AM
    Alanna

    Question about spherical polar angles?

    A plane can be specified with two lines that lie in the plane. For example, two Cartesian coordinate axes x and y specify the xy-plane. By examining the spherical polar coordinates, find the nodal planes of the function f = sin(Theta)*cos(Theta)*cos(phi) and chose one of the following answers:

    a. (zy) and (xy)
    b. (zy) and (zx)
    c. (zx) and (xy)
    d. (xx) and (yy)

    Any help or explanation you can give me would be much appreciated!
    I posted this question here as opposed to under mathematics because I was asked this question for my first year chemistry course. I believe it has to do with wave functions and atomic orbitals in quantum mechanics.

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