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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 A2 e Solution by
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If two fermions occupied the same complete spin orbital , their antisymmetrized product would beThe zero vector cannot represent a normalized quantum state. This is the Pauli exclusion principle: at most one identical fermion occupies any complete one-particle state. Two electrons may occupy the same spatial orbital with opposite spins, because and are different spin orbitals.
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