Home › Forums › electronic structure › electronic structure – chapter forum › 3s flat before 3p?

Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • November 10, 2022 at 11:49 am #7723
    Ruben Quiroz
    Participant

    I don’t get why the order of flattening is 3s->3p->4s->unoccupied. I would assume the ‘loosly’ bound electronbands go to the inifinte limit first…

    November 14, 2022 at 10:02 am #7805
    Stefaan Cottenier
    Keymaster

    This will be dealt with in the feedback webinar (hint: losely bound = extending further into space = more distance needed to get uncoupled).

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Scroll to Top