Activities for Central Forces paradigm

• Central Forces on an Airtable

• Visualizing Spherical Harmonics Using a Balloon

• Plotting Conic Sections

• Exploring the Effective Potential

• Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function

• Hydrogen Wave Function Probability Densities

• Legendre Polynomial Series Coefficients

• A Hermite Polynomial

• Series Solutions

• Trajectories in an Attractive Central Potential

• Quantum Calculations on the Hydrogen Atom

• Probability of Finding an Electron Inside the Bohr Radius

• Particle Confined to a Ring

• Energy and Angular Momentum for a Particle on a Ring

• Time Dependence for a Particle on a Ring

• Superposition States for a Particle on a Ring

• Expectation Values for a Particle on a Ring

• Visualization of the Spherical Harmonics

• Radial Wavefunctions

• Survivor Outer Space (A kinesthetic approach to introducing Center of Mass)

• Interpreting Effective Potential Plots

• Velocity and Acceleration in Polar Coordinates

• Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics

• Finding the Coefficients of a Spherical Harmonic Series