Doublethink and angular momentum — why chemists must be adept at it

Chemists really should know lots and lots about angular momentum which is intimately involved in 3 of the 4 quantum numbers needed to describe atomic electronic structure. Despite this, I never really understood what was going until taking the QM course, and digging into chapters 10 and 11 of Giancoli’s physics book (pp. 248 -310 … Continue reading Doublethink and angular momentum — why chemists must be adept at it