Answer to Question #256288 in General Chemistry for Kimmay17

Question

Click on a subshell to see the labels for all orbitals in the subshell

Orbitals = 1 3 5 7

n = 4 4s 4p 4d 4f

n = 3 3s 3p 3d

n = 2 2s 2p

n = 1 1s

Shells are denoted by the letter "n," which indicates the number of the shell. How many orbitals are contained in the n = 1 shell?

Answer 1

There is only one orbital in the n = 1 shell because there is only one way in which a sphere can be oriented in space. The only allowed combination of quantum numbers for which n = 1 is the following. There are four orbitals in the n = 2 shell