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Major Assumptions of the Shell Model

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Mitch:
What is the major assumption of the shell model?

Donaldson Tan:
what is the shell model? I am not sure if the electron configuration model that I am taught is called the shell model.

Grejak:

--- Quote from: geodome on October 22, 2005, 08:26:39 PM ---what is the shell model? I am not sure if the electron configuration model that I am taught is called the shell model.


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It is not the same thing, but the basic concepts are very similar.  Wikipedia has a good couple paragraph summary of it with a pretty picture, so I will direct you there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_model

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