Spherical harmonics


The spherical harmonics are functions describing the angular dependence of many physical problems e.g solutions to the Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom.

If the latitiude is denoted by v and x= cosv then  the equation is

(d/dx){(1 – x2)dPndx} + n(n+1)Pn = 0.

Pn is the spherical harmonics or the Legendre polynomials of degree n.

a more detailde description is found below:

Spherical harmonics

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