degeneracy of the a 4p orbital

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for question 5.c on test2:
how exactly should I answer: what is the degeneracy of a 4p orbital?

[Swetha Ampabathina1I]

the degeneracy of a 4p orbital would be 3

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The degeneracy would be 3 because there are 3 possible orientations for electrons in the p orbital.

[maldonadojs]

I may be definitely wrong but I thought that degeneracy meant same energy level, do it would be 4s?

[Samantha Chang 2K]

The degeneracy of a 4p orbital will be 3 because they all have the same energy level.

[Imelda Mena 3I]

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?

[Estelle Jung]

All three p orbitals in a given shell are degenerate because they all have the same energy level.

[Daniela Alvarado 3B]

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

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The answer would be 3 because p has one subshell, which will have 3 orbitals which all share the same energy level.

[Jocelyne Milke 1G]

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