Question

Anyone know a good way of remembering the orbital designation in order?

Answer 1

what do you mean "orbital designation"? Are you referring to s, p, d, and f orbitals?

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

What do you mean "remember". You just look at your periodic table which orbitals are which. You first go S, P, then D, and you rarely use F orbitals.

Answer 4

my period table doesn't tell me the orbitals

Answer 5

Well, can you be a bit more specific about this? Do you have a particular question. Because I am still unclear what you're asking about orbitals.

You have \(\sf \color{red}{s}\) and then you have, \(\sf \color{blue}{P_x, P_y, P_z}\), and then you have \(\sf \color{green}{d_{xy}, d_{z^2}, d_{xz}, d_{yz}, d_{x^2-y^2}}\) orbitals. and I don;t think you need to worry about \(f\) orbitals

Answer 6

nvm...