Consider an electron in the  N shell. Express your answers in terms of h  and in SI units. (a) What is the smallest orbital angular momentum it could have? (b) What is the largest orbital angular momentum it could have? (c) What is the largest orbital angular momentum this electron could have in any chosen direction? (d) What is the largest spin angular momentum this election could have in any chosen direction?

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 Consider an electron in the  N shell. Express your answers in terms of h  and in SI units. (a) What is the smallest orbital angular momentum it could have? (b) What is the largest orbital angular momentum it could have? (c) What is the largest orbital angular momentum this electron could have in any chosen direction? (d) What is the largest spin angular momentum this election could have in any chosen direction? 

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