Blog Entry © Sunday, April 19, 2026, by James Pate Williams, Jr., Scattering from a Spherically Symmetric Potential

Blog Entry © Tuesday, April 7, 2026, by James Pate Williams, Jr., Hydrogen-like Atom Polar and Azimuthal Wavefunctions

Blog Entry © Saturday April 4, 2026, by James Pate Williams, Jr., Hydrogen-like Radial Electron Distribution Functions in CPP

#pragma once

class RadialWaveFunction
{
private:
	static double Factorial(int n);
	static double Laguerre(double rho, int n, int l);
public:
	static double R(double r, int Z, int n, int l);
};

#include <math.h>
#include "RadialWaveFunction.h"

double RadialWaveFunction::Factorial(int n)
{
	double factorial = 1.0;

	for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++)
		factorial *= i;

	return factorial;
}

double RadialWaveFunction::Laguerre(double rho, int n, int l)
{
	double sum = 0.0;

	for (int k = 0; k <= n - l - 1; k++)
	{
		double factor1 = pow(-1, k + 2 * l + 1);
		double factor2 = pow(Factorial(n + l), 2.0);
		double factor3 = pow(rho, k);
		double numer = factor1 * factor2 * factor3;
		double factor4 = Factorial(n - l - 1 - k);
		double factor5 = Factorial(2 * l + 1 + k);
		double factor6 = Factorial(k);
		double denom = factor4 * factor5 * factor6;

		sum += numer / denom;
	}

	return sum;
}

double RadialWaveFunction::R(double r, int Z, int n, int l)
{
	double rho = 2.0 * Z * r / n;
	double numer1 = pow(2.0 * Z / n, 3.0);
	double numer2 = Factorial(n - l - 1);
	double denom1 = Factorial(n + n);
	double denom2 = pow(Factorial(n + l), 3.0);
	double numer3 = -sqrt(numer1 * numer2 /
		(denom1 * denom2));
	double exp2 = exp(-0.5 * rho);
	double rhol = pow(rho, l);
	return numer3 * exp2 * rhol * Laguerre(rho, n, l);
}

Blog Entry © Sunday, August 24, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. Corrections to New Quantum Chemical Total Molecular Ground-State Energies for the Helium Hydride Cation (a Hetero Nuclear molecule) and the Hydrogen Molecule (a Homo Nuclear Molecule)

Blog Entry © Friday, August 22, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. New Quantum Chemical Total Molecular Ground-State Energies for the Helium Hydride Cation (a Hetero Nuclear molecule) and the Hydrogen Molecule (a Homo Nuclear Molecule)

Blog Entry © Saturday, August 16, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. Some More Elementary Quantum Chemistry

Blog Entry © Friday, August 15, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. Some Elementary Quantum Chemistry

Blog Entry © Monday, August 11, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. Van der Waals Interaction Between Two Hydrogen Atoms

Blog Entry © Sunday, August 10, 2025, First-Order Perturbation Treatment of the Helium Atom by James Pate Williams, Jr.

Blog Entry © Tuesday, July 29, 2025, Double and Triple Monte Carlo Integration by James Pate Williams, Jr.

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static double randomRange(double lo, double hi)
{
	return (hi - lo) * (double)rand() / RAND_MAX + lo;
}

static double integrand(double r, double w)
{
	return pow(r, 4.0) * (2.0 - r) * w * w * exp(-r);
}

static double StarkEffectIntegral(double E, int N)
{
	double sum = 0.0;

	for (int i = 0; i <= N; i++)
	{
		double r = randomRange(0.0, 100.0);
		double w = randomRange(-1.0, 1.0);

		sum += integrand(r, w);
	}

	return 100.0 * 2.0 * E * sum / (16.0 * (N - 1));
}

static void firstOrderStarkEffect(double E)
{
	double exact = -3.0 * E;
	int N[9] = {
		1000000, 2000000, 3000000, 4000000,
		5000000, 6000000, 7000000, 8000000,
		9000000 };

	for (int n = 0; n < 9; n++)
	{
		int iN = N[n];
		double integ = StarkEffectIntegral(E, iN);
		double error = 100.0 * fabs(integ - exact) / fabs(exact);

		printf("N = %4ld\tintegral = %13.10lf\t%% error = %13.10lf\n",
			iN, integ, error);
	}

	printf("exact value = %13.10lf\n", exact);
}

static double ee1(int N, double R, double Z)
{
	double pi = 4.0 * atan(1.0);
	double sum = 0.0;

	for (int i = 0; i <= N; i++)
	{
		double r1 = randomRange(1.0e-25, R);
		double r2 = randomRange(0.0, r1);

		sum += R * r1 * r1 * exp(-2.0 * Z * (r1 + r2)) * r2 * r2;
	}

	return 16.0 * pi * pi * sum / (N - 1);
}

static double ee2(int N, double R, double Z)
{
	double pi = 4.0 * atan(1.0);
	double sum = 0.0;

	for (int i = 0; i <= N; i++)
	{
		double r1 = randomRange(1.0e-25, R);
		double r2 = randomRange(r1, R);
		
		sum += R * (R - r2) * r2 * exp(-2.0 * Z * (r1 + r2)) * r1 * r1;
	}

	return 16.0 * pi * pi * sum / (N - 1);
}

static void firstOrderHelium(double Z)
{
	double pi = 4.0 * atan(1.0), R = 25.0;
	double exact = 5.0 * pi * pi / (8.0 * pow(Z, 5.0));

	int N[9] = {
		1000000, 2000000, 3000000, 4000000,
		5000000, 6000000, 7000000, 8000000,
		9000000 };

	for (int n = 0; n < 9; n++)
	{
		int iN = N[n];
		double integ = ee1(iN, R, Z) + ee2(iN, R, Z);
		double error = 100.0 * fabs(integ - exact) / fabs(exact);

		printf("N = %4ld\tintegral = %13.10lf\t%% error = %13.10lf\n",
			iN, integ, error);
	}

	printf("exact value = %13.10lf\n", exact);
}

int main(void)
{
	firstOrderStarkEffect(2.0);
	firstOrderHelium(2.0);
	return 0;
}
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static double randomRange(double lo, double hi)
{
	return (hi - lo) * (double)rand() / RAND_MAX + lo;
}

static double f(double x, double y, double z)
{
	return pow(sin(x), 2.0) + y * sin(z);
}

static double g(double x, double y, double z)
{
	return x + y * z * z;
}

static double integral(
	double x0, double x1,
	double y0, double y1,
	double z0, double z1,
	double (*f)(double, double, double),
	int N)
{
	double sum = 0.0;

	for (int n = 0; n <= N; n++)
	{
		double x = randomRange(x0, x1);
		double y = randomRange(y0, y1);
		double z = randomRange(z0, z1);

		sum += f(x, y, z);
	}

	return (x1 - x0) * (y1 - y0) * (z1 - z0) *
		sum / (N - 1);
}

int main(void)
{
	double pi = 4.0 * atan(1.0);
	double x0 = 0.0, x1 = pi;
	double y0 = 0.0, y1 = 1.0;
	double z0 = 0.0, z1 = pi;
	double exact = 0.5 * pi * (2.0 + pi);
	int N[9] = {
		1000000, 2000000, 3000000, 4000000,
		5000000, 6000000, 7000000, 8000000,
		9000000 };

	printf("integrand pow(sin(x), 2.0) + y * sin(z)\n");
	printf("x = 0 to pi, y = 0 to 1, z = 0 to pi\n");

	for (int n = 0; n < 9; n++)
	{
		int iN = N[n];
		double integ = integral(
			x0, x1, y0, y1, z0, z1, f, iN);
		double error = 100.0 * fabs(integ - exact) / fabs(exact);

		printf("N = %4ld\tintegral = %13.10lf\t%% error = %13.10lf\n",
			iN, integ, error);
	}

	printf("exact value = %13.10lf\n", exact);

	x0 = -1.0;
	x1 = 5.0;
	y0 = 2.0;
	y1 = 4.0;
	z0 = 0.0;
	z1 = 1.0;
	exact = 36.0;

	printf("integrand x + y * z * z\n");
	printf("x = -1 to 5, y = 2 to 4, z = 0 to 1\n");

	for (int n = 0; n < 9; n++)
	{
		int iN = N[n];
		double integ = integral(
			x0, x1, y0, y1, z0, z1, g, iN);
		double error = 100.0 * fabs(integ - exact) / fabs(exact);

		printf("N = %4ld\tintegral = %13.10lf\t%% error = %13.10lf\n",
			iN, integ, error);
	}

	printf("exact value = %13.10lf\n", exact);
	return 0.0;
}