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The Schrodinger family

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has turned out a ton of successful models. [Schrodinger family together]

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There's Emmy Schrodinger, who models

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runway fashions in Paris, [Emmy falls off fashion runway]

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Candy Schrodinger, who is regularly featured on

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the covers of magazines like Vogue and

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Cosmo, and Beatrice Schrodinger, who's an [Beatrice waving]

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up-and-coming hand model. She's thinking

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of branching into feet. But none of

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that's good enough for Delia Schrodinger,

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the brainy one of the bunch. She's [Delia reading Science book]

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determined to be a quantum mechanical

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model. When her sisters asked her what in

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the world that is, well, she explains, a

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quantum mechanical model is a visual

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demonstration of the location of an atom's

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electrons. Basically, by dividing the [Electrons orbiting an atom]

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space around a nucleus into orbitals, it

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offers probable locations where an

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electron might be found, which is usually

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about where she loses them. Well, Delia

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will not be deterred from her dream. Delia knows that to become the best [Delia inside an atom]

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quantum mechanical model she can be,

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she's going to need her orbitals

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categorized by quantum number. For

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starters, she's got her principal quantum

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number, symbolized by the letter n,

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because the letter n is in the word

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principal somewhere... right there. This number [Hand points to Principal]

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represents the energy level containing

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an electron and ranges from 1 to 7. The

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lower the number, the lower the energy.

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If the principal quantum number is six

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or seven on the other hand, then the

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electron has more energy than a [Man holding dog bowl and dog follows]

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chihuahua at feeding time. Delia's next

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orbital is categorized by the orbital

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quantum number, or angular momentum

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quantum number, symbolized by the letter

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l. This number indicates the shape of the

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electron cloud, as well as the number of

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sublevels of energy present. There are

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two sublevels of energy in energy

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level two, three sublevels of energy in

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energy level three, and so on. Well, the

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third number is the magnetic quantum

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number, symbolized by the letter m, which

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explains how the orbital is oriented. And, [Orbitals talking to each other]

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it further breaks down the previous quantum

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number. It's almost like the principal

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quantum number is a book, the angular

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momentum quantum number is a chapter, and

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the magnetic quantum number

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is a page, to put things in terms a

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literature nut can understand. Finally

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there's the spin quantum number,

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symbolized by the letter s. Well, all this

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one does is demonstrate what direction [Atom orbitals spinning in different directions]

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an electron is moving in an orbital,

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clockwise or counterclockwise. And yeah,

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electrons are always moving... not really

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the "Netflix and chill" kind of type. Well, [Electron relaxing watching TV]

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Delia's sisters may not be able to

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understand her fascination with

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electrons, but at least they support her

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in her efforts. There was actually a halfway

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decent turnout at her last subatomic [Delia modelling as an atom and walks down runway]

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particle show.

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