Terms
Understanding Equations
Orbital Model
Rules of electron distribution
Grab Bag
100
The distance between two adjacent peaks.
What is wavelength?
100
The wavelength of a photon multiplied by it's frequency.
What is the speed of light (c)?
100
The lowest energy state of a hydrogen atom.
What is the ground state?
100
Schrodinger's equation describes these properties of electrons.
What are wave functions?
100

This color has the highest energy of any in the visible spectrum.

What is violet?

200

The number of wavelengths that pass through a point within a second.

What is frequency?

200

The energy of a photon divided by its frequency equals.

What is Planck's constant (h)?

200

A collection of orbitals with the same n.

What is an electron shell or energy level?

200

The state held by electrons when they exist above the ground state.

What is the excited state?

200

"An electron in a permitted orbit is in an 'allowed' energy state and does not radiate energy" is a part of this model.

What is Bohr's Model?

300
A 'particle' of radiant energy.
What is a photon?
300
The relationship between wavelength and frequency?
What is inversely proportional?
300
The orientation of the orbital in space, described as integers between 1 and -1.
What is the magnetic quantum number?
300
Element with the orbital notation (barcode) of 1s2.
What is helium?
300
Process by which electrons are ejected from a metal surface when light strikes the surface.
What is the photoelectric effect?
400
Something that is formed when radiation is separated into component wavelengths.
What is a spectrum?
400
The "E" of E=hv relates to this energy.
What is the energy of a single quantum?
400
Point at which the probability of of electron density decreases to zero.
What is a node?
400
“No two electrons in an atom may have the same values for all four quantum numbers”
What is Pauli's Exclusion Principle?
400
Orbitals that have the same n and l values.
What is a subshell?
500
Distinct set of wave functions that describe the probabilities of electron locations around a nucleus.
What are orbitals?
500
The relationship between wavelength and velocity?
What is inversely proportional?
500
Number of types of d orbitals possible.
What is five?
500
“It is impossible to simultaneously know both the position and the momentum of an electron in an atom”
What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
500
N and L are the principal and angular momentum quantum numbers. When N = 3, these are the allowed values of L.
What are 0, 1, and 2.
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