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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 A5 b Solution by
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Write for the orthonormal atomic orbital on numbered site , with every positive lobe pointing along . A normalized set of symmetry-adapted linear combinations isEach has unit squared coefficient sum, and every distinct pair has zero inner product. The orbital representation therefore reduces to . For example, the fully symmetric site sum still has orbital symmetry because a orbital itself changes sign under operations that reverse . Ignoring that sign would assign the wrong representations.
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