Question

How many orbitals do you expect to be present in the 5th shell?

Answer 1

The second shell has 2 subshells: the subshell, which has 1 orbital with 2 electrons, and the subshell, which has 3 orbitals with 6 electrons, for a total of 4 orbitals and 8 electrons. For the third shell, , so the allowed values of are: , which is the subshell, , which is the subshell, and , which is the subshell.