Chapter 8, Problem 8C.6AE

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The orbital angular momentum quantum number for an electron having $j=\frac{1}{2}$ and $\frac{3}{2}$ states has to be stated.

Concept introduction:

A term symbol describes the orbital, spin and total angular momenta of an electronic state.  The symbol $L$ represents the vector sum of orbital angular momentum.  The symbol $S$ represents the vector sum of spin angular momentum.  The symbol $J$ represents the total angular momentum.  Therefore, the term symbol is represented as given below.

  ${}^{2S+1}{L}_J$