And we can actually better visualize this if we plot how that energy changes as a function of internuclear distance.

而我们就能更清楚地看到这些，如果我们画出,能量随核间距的变化曲线。

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That was Cartesian space. When I plot r as a distance out from the nucleus that is sort of our simple-minded planetary model. Now let's look at energy.

笛卡尔坐标系，当我用r表示,离原子核的距离时，那只是我们头脑中简单的,类似行星的模型，现在我们看一下能量问题。

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