Answer to Question #223313 in General Chemistry for Bawe Bilanyuy

Question

Which of the following pairs of quantum numbers is not possible (impossible) and why?

A. 1,2,3,-1/2

B. 2,1,0,1/2

C.1, 0, 0, -1/2

D. 5,4,0,+-1/2

E.3,1,0,+1/2

Answer 1

The answer is A

And this is because the azimuthal quantum can never be more than the principle quantum number.