Sunday, September 30, 2007

Reading Assignment 15

Most difficult part of the material

Trying to understand the spin orbital and momenta coupling - I still don't know what is meant by 'coupling' and this stopped me from understanding a fair amount of section 10.3.

Most interesting part of the material

How the different forces are more/less important at different radii of the atom. I thought it was interesting how this gave rise to the different optical excitation levels. I mostly understand how the shielding works but if this could be explained in more detail (just the basics) it would be great.

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