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    Undergrad Hund's rules and Pauli's principle

    Thank you so much, I can see the connection now. Perfect!
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    Undergrad Hund's rules and Pauli's principle

    Thank you for your reply. But how can one see that ## L = m_L = \sum{m_l} ## of all is the highest L compatible (yielding totally asymmetric wave function) with S? This doesn't seem trivial, at least not to me.
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    Undergrad Hund's rules and Pauli's principle

    You can find it here in section "Ground state term Symbol": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_symbol
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    Undergrad Hund's rules and Pauli's principle

    So as I can see from the literature there are two "methods" on how to apply Hund's rules to determine the ground state of an electron configuration. Method 1: One determines all possible states due to Pauli's principle (wave function must be totally antisymmetric) using angular momentum...
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    Graduate Macroscopic Maxwell's equations and speed of light in media

    So I followed the derivation of the Macroscopic Maxwell's equations by averaging the fields / equations and doing a taylor series to separate the induced charges and currents from the free ones. But why does light now "suddenly" travel slower in dielectric media? I mean, sure, it comes out from...