Degeneracy
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Degeneracy
What is the difference in degeneracy for an H-atom and multielectron atoms? Do the same rules apply?
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Re: Degeneracy
All of the orbitals in the shell of a hydrogen atom are degenerate. Orbitals with the same n but different values of l is true only for the hydrogen atom and one-electron ions.
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Re: Degeneracy
For multi-electron, orbitals with same l but different ml are said to be degenerate. For hydrogen, orbitals with different n are degenerate because it only has one electron. This rule would not apply to multi-electron model because multi-electron model is more complicated and need to take the electrostatic interaction into account.
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