So these names, they don't really make any sense why they're called past s p and f, and it turns out that it comes from spectroscopy terms that are pre-quantum mechanics where, for example, this is called the sharp line, I think the principle, the diffuse, and the fundamental.

看到这些名字，你会发现,它们为什么叫s，p，f是没什么道理的，事实上,它们来源于,量子力学之前的光谱学中的术语，例如，它们分别叫做锐线，我认为是主线，漫射和基本。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, it seemed like a good start for me, pre-med/bio, and I signed up for my bio class -- I found out, as Professor Drennen did, that I had to take chemistry as well. I wasn't as upset, I was sort of a neutral chemistry person at this point, but I thought it was pretty smart to get it over with on the first semester, so that's what I did.

一个既在科学上有挑战又能帮助他人的职业，从医学预科或者生物起家-,我参加了生物课，我和Drennen教授一样，我也必须要上化学课，我并没有很不爽,我当时对化学的态度很中立。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选