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David J. Griffiths, Darrell F. Schroeter: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover, 2018, Cambridge University Press) No rating

I would be delinquent if I failed to mention the archaic nomenclature for atomic states, because all chemists and most physicists use it (and the people who make up the Graduate Record Exam love this sort of thing). For reasons known best to nineteenth-century spectroscopists, l = 0 is called s (for “sharp”), l = 1 is p (for “principal”), l = 2 is d (“diffuse”), and l = 3 is f (“fundamental”); after that I guess they ran out of imagination, because it now continues alphabetically (g, h, i, skip j, just to be utterly perverse, k, l, etc.).¹⁹

[…] There exist rituals, known as Hund’s Rules (see Problem 5.18) for figuring out what these totals will be, for a particular atom. The result is recorded as the following hieroglyphic:

¹⁹: The shells themselves are assigned equally arbitrary nicknames, starting (don’t ask me why) with K : The K shell is n = 1, the L shell is n = 2, M is n = 3, and so on (at least they’re in alphabetical order).

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by , (Page 213 - 214)

I get the feeling the author is not really liking chemistry/the chemists' conventions…

Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell (2009, Viking)

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely …

Review of "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit.

Content warning pol, review of "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit.

finished reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)

Margaret Killjoy: The Sapling Cage (Paperback, 2024, Feminist Press at The City University of New York)

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …

Content warning pol, mention of Harry Potter, review of "The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy