Talk:Term symbol

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If anyone happens to read this, on the page for Hund's_Rules, it states that they can only be used to determine the ground states, not to order the excited states by energy. However, on the Term_Symbol page it seems to use Hund's Rules for exactly this. I don't know enough about the subject to know where the error lies, but there certainly appears to be an inconsistency at present. --Westm 06:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needs to be rewritten

I think this page needs to be rewritten, and made clearer and simpler.

My thesis is on computational and quantum chemistry, and I could honestly not understand and follow the logic of the page, nor find the information that I was looking for.

Doktor Erik (talk) 18:39, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you be more specific about the improvements you would suggest? What information were you looking for? What needs to be simplified or added?

One possibility would be to just retain sections 1 and 2 which explain the meaning of the term symbols and all the quantum numbers. The problem of finding all term symbols for a given configuration is rather complicated for Wikipedia, both by Slater's method and by group theory, and could be replaced by a brief mention with an appropriate literature reference. Or would you prefer to keep at least one method for solving this problem and explain it better?

Or do you have something else in mind? Dirac66 (talk) 02:29, 7 June 2008 (UTC)