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Electronic Configura
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an electronic configuration | the arrangement of electrons in an atom |
| what is a continuous spectra | band of colours produced when light is separated into its components (They have different degrees of refraction) |
| What is line emission spectra | occurs when a tube of hydrogen gas has electric current pass through it is separated into its components |
| what is an energy level | fixed energy value that electron in an atom may have |
| what is ground state | is the state in which electrons occupy the lowest energy level possible |
| what is the excited state | its the state in which electrons occupy the higher energy level than those available in the ground state |
| what is a photon | photon energy is the energy of a single photon which proportional to frequency of a photon |
| what is the frequency of a photon | is defined as how many waves pass a certain point per second |
| How do line emission spectra arise? | 1)Electron occupy the ground state 2)Energy is adsorbed and electrons jumps to higher energy level 3)excited state but is unstable dropping to a lower energy level emitting a photon |
| Summary of Bohr theory | The higher the photon frequency -> the higher the energy -> the shorter the wavelength) The lower the photon frequency -> the lower the energy -> the longer the wavelength |
| Explain the Lyman,Balmer and paschen series | When electron falls to n = 1 level gives UV Range –Lyman Series n = 2 level gives Visible Range - Balmer Series n = 3,4 or 5 levels gives IR Range – Paschen Series |
| what is the aufbau principle | when building up the electron configuration of an atom in its ground state,the electrons occupy the lowest energy level |
| what is pauli's exclusion principle | states that no more than 2 electrons may occupy an orbital and they must have opposite spin |
| What is hund's rule of maximum multiplicity | when 2 or more orbitals of equal energy are available the electrons occupy them singly before filling in pairs |