Chapter 3, Problem 3.55E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

By using the hotels analogy, the number of floors and the number of rooms on the top floor of hotel Five are to be determined.

Concept introduction:

In the conventional hotels analogy, the convention center refers to the nucleus of an atom. Each hotel represents a shell, each floor represents a subshell, and each room represents an orbital. To describe the locality of an electron, the hotel (shell), floor (subshell), and room (orbital) assigned to it is to be indicated.