Determining electron configuration with quantum numbers n l

[rwooduk]

This relates to a question I asked recently on Quantum Dots, but I'll rephrase it and hopefully any chemists out there can help.

If we have (n,l) = (1,2) where n and l are quantum numbers can we determine the orbitals? and hence the number of electrons in a quantum dot?

i.e.

And also I've always used the SSPSP... to fill orbitals, what's happened to the second S etc? why does he go SPDSF

Thanks in advance for any help, completely lost.

 

[Borek]

No idea what is going on. Symbols look to me as if he was writing about terms, not orbitals. Not that it makes sense to me with terms.

 

[rwooduk]

No idea what is going on. Symbols look to me as if he was writing about terms, not orbitals. Not that it makes sense to me with terms.

think it's something to do with that for 1s₂ n=0 l=0, for 1p₆ n=0 l=1 for 1d₁₀ n=0 l=2 etc etc

apologies to mods, this is now slightly clashing with:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/energy-levels-of-quantum-dots.812810/#post-5103330

 

[Borek]

Locking here.