Problem 1 Answer briefly the following questions: (a) What is the exchange interaction? (b) Imagine that electrons were
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Problem 1 Answer briefly the following questions: (a) What is the exchange interaction? (b) Imagine that electrons were spin 1 and not spin 1/2 particles. How many chemical elements would there be in the first period of the periodic table? (c) Write the complete electronic configuration for helium oxygen and copper, (d) What are the contributions to the energy of an electron in a multi-electron atom? List as many as possible. (e) Do the operators the orbital angular momentum and of spin commute in a multi-electron atom?