Question

. Consider the carbon atom (ground state configuration 1s22s22p2) and oxygen atom (ground state configuration 1s22s22p) (a) (8 points, 4 points each)) Write out the electron configuration (microstate) corresponding to the lowest energy configuration of carbon and oxygen. What are L and S in each case? (b) (6 points) What values of J are possible with the values of L and S that you found for carbon and oxygen in part (a)? Use Hund's third rule to determine the complete term symbols for the ground states of carbon and oxygen.

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