The worst explanation I’ve ever had in school was when my high school chemistry textbook was talking about “quantum numbers” in electron orbitals without mentioning there was such a thing as the Schrodinger equation. It was 100% bullshit handwaving and wouldn’t admit it, so of course nobody understood it. If they just went and said something like “this is a result that falls out of the advanced math of quantum mechanics, forget about what it means and just shut up and memorize” it would have been more honest.
The worst explanation I’ve ever had in school was when my high school chemistry textbook was talking about “quantum numbers” in electron orbitals without mentioning there was such a thing as the Schrodinger equation. It was 100% bullshit handwaving and wouldn’t admit it, so of course nobody understood it. If they just went and said something like “this is a result that falls out of the advanced math of quantum mechanics, forget about what it means and just shut up and memorize” it would have been more honest.