for question 5.c on test2:
how exactly should I answer: what is the degeneracy of a 4p orbital?
degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
The degeneracy would be 3 because there are 3 possible orientations for electrons in the p orbital.
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
I may be definitely wrong but I thought that degeneracy meant same energy level, do it would be 4s?
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
The degeneracy of a 4p orbital will be 3 because they all have the same energy level.
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
So we are not taking into account the spin of the electrons? I thought that the energy of an electron did not change if the electron had spin up or down. So for a 4p orbital, would we not have: n=4, l=1, m_l=1,0,-1 and m_s = +1/2,-1/2; a total degeneracy of 6?
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
All three p orbitals in a given shell are degenerate because they all have the same energy level.
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
Since it’s 4p, we know p has 1 subshell (l=1), that subshell has 3 orbitals and all those orbitals will have the same energy level
Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
The answer would be 3 because p has one subshell, which will have 3 orbitals which all share the same energy level.
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Re: degeneracy of the a 4p orbital
Imelda Mena 3I wrote:So we are not taking into account the spin of the electrons? I thought that the energy of an electron did not change if the electron had spin up or down. So for a 4p orbital, would we not have: n=4, l=1, m_l=1,0,-1 and m_s = +1/2,-1/2; a total degeneracy of 6?
This would be the total number of electrons but degeneracy applies to orbitals with the same energy level not the number of electrons
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