Question

What is the total number of orbitals found in the second energy level? openstudy?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Second energy level consists of one "s" sub-shell and a "p" sub-shell. So, in a "s" sub-shell there is only one orbital. Whereas in a "p" sub-shell there are 3 orbitals which are $p_{x}$, $p_{y}$, and $p_{z}$.

Also, each orbital can contain a maximum of two electrons.

Therefore, we can conclude that in total there are four orbitals (one from s and three from p) found in the second energy level.

Answer 2

On the second shell there are two individual subshells:
The "s" subshell has only 1 orbital with max. two electrons spinning around; and the so-called "p" subshell has 3 orbitals with max. 6 electrons (2 on each!)
In total, there are four orbitals with 8 revolving electrons on the second shell.
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