Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Reading Assignment 14

Most interesting part of the material

Finally less maths! I sort of understand the ground state energies, and how higher shells (in terms of quantum number) can have a lower energy. It is interesting how we can study some materials using the x-ray line spectra, and how we can observe the selection rules working. Can't wait to look at this!

Most difficult part of the material

I don't really understand teh Hartree theory, and how we can approximate the (Z-2) factor, if that is indeed what we are doing. It all seems a little inaccurate and im not sure about the reasoning behind it. I hope this is what we will focus on in the lecture.

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