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Chapter 4
Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms
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Chemistry
10th Grade
10/09/2008

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What didn't Rutherford's model of the atom explain?
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How electrons filled in the spaces surrounding the nucleus, opposite charges attract
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Light behaves as what and has what type properties?
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Wave;particle
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What did the photoelectric effect reveal about light?
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that it acts as a particle
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Form of energy;travels through space;properties of waves
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electromagnetic radiation
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All forms of elecromagnetic radiation
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electromagnetic spectrum
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whichtypes of electromagnetic radiation have long wavelengths (4)?
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Infrared, radiowaves, TV, and microwaves
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Which types of electromagnetic radiation have short wavelengths (3)?
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X-rays, UV, Gamma Rays
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Which of visible light is the shortest, which is the longest?
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Violet;Red
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All forms of electromagnetic radiation travel at the same speed, what is that speed?
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3 X 10-8 m/s
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the distance between corresponding points on adjacent waves(cm, m or nm)
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wavelength
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Defined number of waves that pass a given point in a specific time, usually 1 second (waves/second aka hertz)
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frequency
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how wavelength and frequency are related in realtion to the speed of light
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speed of light=wavelength x frequency
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the emission of electrons from a metal when light shines on the metal
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photoelectric effect
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of energy is the minimum quantity of energy that can be lost or gained by an atom
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quantum
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what is the value of 1 hertz?
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6.626 x 10-(-34)
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how are hertz and frequency related in relation to energy?
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energy=hertz x frequency
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higher frequency= ___________
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greater energy
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a particle of electromagnetic radiation having zero mass and carrying a quantum of energy
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photon
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lowest energy level
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ground state
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higher potential energy than ground state
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excited state
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when a narrow beam of the emitted light was shined through a prism, it was seperated into four specific colors of the visible spectrum
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line emission spectrum
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what types of electromagnetic radiation is the Lyman;Balmer;Paschen series?
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lyman=UV
Balmer=Visible
Paschen=Infrared
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emission of continuos range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation
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continuos spectrum
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electron can circle nucleus only in allowed paths(orbits); definate fixed energy
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Bohr model
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electron falls to lower energy level and a photon is emitted
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emission
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energy added to an atom in order to move an electron from lower level to higher level
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absorption
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bending of a wave as it passes by the edge of an opening or through a small opening
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diffaction
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when waves overlap
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interference
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states that it is impossible to determine aimultaneously both the position and velocity of an electron or any other particle
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heisenberg uncertainty principle
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describes mathematically the wave properties of electrons and other very small particles
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quantum theory
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3d region around the nucleus that indicates the probable location of an electron
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orbital
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specify the properties of atomic orbitals and the properties of electrons in orbitals
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quantum numbers
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indicates the main energy level occupied by the electron
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principal quantum number (n)
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n-2=
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the total number of orbitals that can exist in a given shell(main energy level)
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orbitals of different shapes
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sublevels
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indicates shape of orbital
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angular momentum quantum number(l)
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n=
n-1=
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orbital shapes possible
angular momentum number
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shape of:
s orbital
p orbital
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sphere;dumbell
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sublevels
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s,p,d,f
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indicates the orientation of an orbital around the nucleus
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Magnetic quantum number(m)
n-2
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only two possible values(1/2 or -1/2) which indicate the fundamental spin states of an electron in an orbital
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spin quantum number
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2n-2=
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total number of electrons
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the arrangement of electrons in an atom
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electron configuration
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the electron configuration is _______ for each element
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unique
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an electron occupies the lowest-energy orbital that can recieve it
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aufbau principle
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no two electrons in the same atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers
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pauli exclusion principal
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orbitals of equal energy are each occupied by a second electron and all electrons in singly occupied orbitals must have the same spin state
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hund's rule
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