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📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 12#️⃣ Question 9🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The radial wave function of an atomic orbital in hydrogen is proportional to the square of the radial distance, multiplied by an exponentially decaying factor. The angular wave function is proportional to the expression 3cos^2(theta) - 1, where theta is the angle from the z axis. What is the principal quantum number of the atomic orbital?

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