This is equal to the amount of energy required to move an electron from one energy level to a higher energy level.
What is a quantum?
100
This scientist stated that an atomic orbital can at most hold 2 electrons with opposite spins.
Who is Pauli?
100
This describes the ways in which electrons are arranged around the nucleus of an atom.
What are electron configurations?
100
This sublevel has a spherical shape.
What is the s sublevel?
100
This includes radio waves, ultra violet rays, infrared rays, visible light, and gamma rays.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
200
This is the modern description of electrons in atoms.
What is the Quantum Mechanical Mode?
200
This scientist stated that electrons occupy fixed circular energy levels that travel around the nucleus.
Who is Neils Bohr?
200
This diagram shows how electrons are placed into each orbital in a sublevel.
What is an orbital diagram?
200
This sublevel has 7 orbitals of equal energy.
What is the f sublevel.
200
This equation uses the speed of light in a vacuum and wavelength to calculate the frequency of light.
What is c = lambda x nu
300
This is the region of space in which there is a high probability of finding an electron.
What is an atomic orbital?
300
This scientist developed complex mathematical equations to describe the behavior of an electron in hydrogen.
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
300
This element has the electron configuration of 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p6 6s2 4f14 5d9
What is gold?
300
4 out of the 5 orbitals in this sublevel have a clover shape.
What is the d sublevel?
300
This equation calculates the energy of a wavelength of light emitted when an electron drops from a higher energy level to a lower energy level.
What is E = h x nu
400
According to this principle, electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first.
What is the Aufbau principle?
400
This scientist stated that when there are multiple orbitals in a sublevel, the electrons should be placed in each orbital before pairing them up into an orbital.
Who is Hund?
400
These two elements are exceptions to the 3 rules of the electron configurations.
What chromium and copper?
400
This sublevel can hold up to 6 electrons.
What is the p sublevel?
400
The frequencies of light emitted by an element separate into discrete lines to give this.
What is the atomic emission spectrum of an element?
500
This principle states that it is impossible to know both the position and the velocity of an electron at the same time.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
500
This scientist used the photoelectric effect to explain the wavelike behavior of electrons.
Who is Einstein?
500
Lanthanum has this electron configuration.
What is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p6 6s2 4f1?
500
This energy level is the first energy level to contain f orbitals and holds up to 32 electrons.