Chapter 8: Q7CQ (page 338)
Your friends ask: 鈥淲hy is there an exclusion principle?鈥 Explain in the simplest terms.
Short Answer
The two electrons cannot have all quantum numbers the same including spin, and cannot be in the same one-electron states.
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Chapter 8: Q7CQ (page 338)
Your friends ask: 鈥淲hy is there an exclusion principle?鈥 Explain in the simplest terms.
The two electrons cannot have all quantum numbers the same including spin, and cannot be in the same one-electron states.
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What angles might the intrinsic angular momentum vector make with the z-axis for a deuteron? (See Table 8.1)
Identify the different total angular momentum states allowed a 3d electron in a hydrogen atom.
A Simple Model: The multielectron atom is unsolvable, but simple models go a long way. Sectiongives energies and orbit radii forone-electron/hydrogenlike atoms. Let us see how useful these are by considering lithium.
(a) Treat one of lithium'selectrons as a single electron in a one-electron atom ofrole="math" localid="1659948261120" . Find the energy and orbit radius.
(b) The otherelectron being in the same spatial state. must have the same energy and radius, but we must account for the repulsion between these electrons. Assuming they are roughly one orbit diameter apart, what repulsive energy would they share, and if each claims half this energy. what would be the energies of these two electrons?
(c) Approximately what charge does lithium's lone valence electron orbit, and what radius and energy would it have?
(d) Is in reasonable to dismiss the role of theelectrons in chemical reactions?
(e) The actual energies of lithium's electrons are about(twice, of course) and. How good is the model?
(f) Why should the model's prediction for the valence electron's energy differ in the direction it does from the actual value?
Figureshows the Stern-Gerlach apparatus. It reveals that spin-particles have just two possible spin states. Assume that when these two beams are separated inside the channel (though still near its centreline). we can choose to block one or the other for study. Now a second such apparatus is added after the first. Their channels are aligned. But the second one is rotated about the-axis by an angle \(\phi\) from the first. Suppose we block the spin-down beam in the first apparatus, allowing only the spin-up beam into the second. There is no wave function for spin. but we can still talk of a probability amplitude, which we square to give a probability. After the first apparatus' spin-up beam passes through the second apparatus, the probability amplitude iswhere the arrows indicate the two possible findings for spin in the second apparatus.
(a) What is the probability of finding the particle spin up in the second apparatus? Of finding it spin down? Argue that these probabilities make sense individually for representative values ofand their sum is also sensible.
(b) By contrasting this spin probability amplitude with a spatial probability amplitude. Such as. Argue that although the arbitrariness ofgives the spin cases an infinite number of solves. it is still justified to refer to it as a "two-state system," while the spatial case is an infinite-state system.
Using to eliminate L - S. as wellas , obtain equation (8- 32 )from the equation that precedes it.
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