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Light and Wave Mechanics
Electron Configuration
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Vocabulary/Principles
100

The word for the lowest energy level.

What is ground state?

100

The value of the speed of light.

What is 2.998 x 10 ^8 m/s?

100

The ways in which electrons are arranged in various orbitals around the nuclei of atoms.

What is electron configuration?

100

What is the formula used to find wavelength and frequency?

c = wavelength x v

100

The amount of energy needed to move an electron from one energy level to another.

What is a quantum?

200

If the spin of one electron is clock-wise, what is the spin of the other electron in the orbital?

What is counter-clockwise?

200

A wave’s height from zero to the crest/ also a measure of energy.

What is amplitude?

200

The amount of energy sublevels in the second principle energy level.

What is 2?

200

What is the frequency of radiation with a wavelength of 5.00 x 10^-8 meters?

6.00 x 10^15 Hz

200

A discrete bundle of electromagnetic energy. (Has properties of a particle and a wave.)

What is a photon?

300

The amount of unpaired electrons in an atom of selenium (Se).

What is 2?

300

What will happen to the wavelength when the frequency increases?

It will decrease/ get shorter.

300

The maximum number of electrons in the second principle energy level.

What is 8?

300

What is the wavelength of radiation with a frequency of 1.5 x 10^13?

2.00 x 10^-5 meters.

300

States that electrons tend to enter the orbitals of lowest energy first.

What is the Aufbau principle?

400

The type of electromagnetic radiation that has the highest frequency.

What are Gamma Rays?

400

This is what happens when an electron moves closer to the nucleus.

What is a decrease of energy/ color emission?

400

The shape of the 3p atomic orbital.

What is a dumbbell?

400

Calculate the wavelength of the light if the frequency of radiation is 5.10 x 10^14 Hz.

What is 5.88 x 10^-7 meters?

400

States that each orbital has at most two electrons.

What is the Pauli exclusion principle?

500

The principal quantum number always equals the number of _________ within that principal energy level.

What are sublevels?

500

The frequencies of light emitted by an element.

What is the atomic emission spectrum?

500

The electron configuration of Calcium.

What is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2?

500

E = h x v, where  h = 6.63 x 10 ^-34 J/s.

What is the energy of a photon of microwave radiation with a frequency of 3.20 x 10^11?

What is 2.12 x 10^-22 J?

500

States the impossibility of knowing both velocity and position of a moving particle at the same time.

What is The Heisenberg uncertainty principle?

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