Physicist’s Periodic Table
Physicist Timmothy Stowe’s periodic table places elements in discrete levels. It is plotted in three dimensions, with the three axes representing the principal quantam number, n the orbital quantam number, l and the orbital magnetic quantam number, m(sub)l
This is one of my favorite elemental video about the periodic table, mainly because instead of just reciting the names of the elements, it gives an example of where they appear or shows a sample of the element itself.
There is also a higher quality version of this video at YouTube.
The video is by Tom Lehrer, it especially appropriate to post it today because he is celebrating his 80th birthday today! Happy birthday Tom!
If you want to hear his sing about the derivatives and how to calculate it, please click here. The song is called there is delta for every epsilon.
