Can anyone help me with this chemistry assignment?

I have the idea that because the second shell is filled from lithium to Ne, the shell doesn't get larger. But why does it get smaller? Does this perhaps have something to do with the charge in the nucleus that might somehow attract the electrons?

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HALLO78366
2 years ago

Here the last sentence should probably be the most helpful.
I’m not a chemist now, but I guess that particles with different charge in the atom attract, and the larger the charge, the greater the attraction to differently charged particles, and therefore the radius becomes smaller… This should probably change again in the next shell, the core will first become larger, and then changes its size from large to small…
I also found something in a Wiki article.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodensystem#Atomradius