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In General Chemistry the ground state of the He atom is depicted as having one electron spin ”up” and the other electron spin ” down, each in a ls orbital: that is, ??. In class we saw that the ground state of He within the single electron orbital approximation was Where the numbers in parentheses indicate with Which electron the function is associated. In what ways is this ground state wavefunction similar or different than the General Chemistry picture.

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