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Functional Materials: Understanding the Chemistry and Physics of Solids
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This lecture reviews the basics of atomic orbitals, including the four quantum numbers that we use to catalog the behavior of electrons in atoms. The lecture finishes by looking at the periodic trends in the energies and sizes of atomic orbitals. This lecture was designed and delivered by Patrick Woodward for use in the course Solid State Chemistry (Chem 7330) at Ohio State University.

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