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Terrm symbols are really letting me confused.
A spectroscopic term or term symbol is used to identify different arrangments of a given electronic configuration. For example, to carbon in ground state (1s² 2s² 2p²) there are a lot of different possible values for ml and ms, and term symbols can describe these differences, as well as the different energies of the possible microstates.
That’s where my confusion starts: if a term symbol groups microstates with the same energy, how is that possible that some microstates from different orbitais with different energies are described by the same term symbol?
For example, 1s² and 2s² have different energies, but they are represented by the same term symbol (singlet S). It just doesn’t make sense to me.
You can see graphically my doubt in slide 10: http://www.clt.astate.edu/sreeve/Multielectron%20Atoms.pdf
I’m sorry, perhaps I just let thing more confusing haha And I’m sorry if i made any english mistake! (:
A spectroscopic term or term symbol is used to identify different arrangments of a given electronic configuration. For example, to carbon in ground state (1s² 2s² 2p²) there are a lot of different possible values for ml and ms, and term symbols can describe these differences, as well as the different energies of the possible microstates.
That’s where my confusion starts: if a term symbol groups microstates with the same energy, how is that possible that some microstates from different orbitais with different energies are described by the same term symbol?
For example, 1s² and 2s² have different energies, but they are represented by the same term symbol (singlet S). It just doesn’t make sense to me.
You can see graphically my doubt in slide 10: http://www.clt.astate.edu/sreeve/Multielectron%20Atoms.pdf
I’m sorry, perhaps I just let thing more confusing haha And I’m sorry if i made any english mistake! (:
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