Just as with your traditional 401k, you contribute pretax dollars to a traditional IRA (as I discuss further, you can only contribute pretax dollars up to certain income levels) and then benefit from tax-deferred growth and distributions.emember that contribution limits apply to the total of your contributions to all of your retirement accounts, either IRA or 401k. Note that the chart below includes the Roth option â which as of 2006 has been available for 401ks as well as IRAs.
Define excited state: a state of a physical system (such as an atomic nucleus, an atom, or a molecule) that is higher in energy than the ground state a state of a physical system (such as an atomic nucleus, an atom, or a molecule) that is higher in energy than the ground stateâ¦
Excited states result from the absorption of energy by the outermost, or valence, electrons of an atom that cause a jump to higher energy shells or orbitals. The excited state electron does not remain excited permanently but emits energy in the form of light in order to return to its original ground state. Excited states are important parts of some reactions as well as in the analysis of substances. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member.