Total Effect
The total effect, obtained by summing the three components up, is given by the following expression :
where is the total angular momentum ( if and otherwise). It is worth noting that this expression was first obtained by A. Sommerfeld based on the old Bohr theory, i.e., before the modern quantum mechanics was formulated.
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