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Models of the Atom

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Rutherford's planetary model could not explain the ?? of elements.   chemical properties  
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Bohr proposed that electrons move only in specific ?? around the nucleus.   circular paths  
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Rutherford's model of the atom was known as the ??.   planetary model  
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The quantum mechanical model determines the allowed ? an atom can have.   energies  
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The quantum mechanical model determine how likely it is to be found in ?? around the nucleus.   various locations  
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Each sublevel(suorbital)corresponds to an ?? describing where the electron is likely to be found.   orbital shape  
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The wavelength and frequency of light are ?? to each other.   inversely proportional  
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When an atom absorbs energy, electrons move into ???.   higher energy levels.  
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When electrons drop back to a lower energy level, they ??.   lose energy  
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When electrons lose energy as they move to a lower energy level, they produce ? of different colors.   light  
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The light emitted by electrons as they transition to a lower energy level has a frequency directly proportional to the ?? of the electron.   energy change  
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Classical mechanics adequately describe the motions of bodies much larger than ?.   atoms  
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quantum mechanics describe the motion of subatomic particles and atoms as ?.   waves  
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The fixed energies an electron can have are called ??.   energy levels  
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To move from one energy level to another, the electron must ? or ? just the right amount of energy.   lose or gain  
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In general, the higher an electron is on the energy "ladder", the ? it is from the nucleus.   farther  
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A ? of energy is the amount of energy required to move an electron from one energy level to another energy level.   quantum  
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The higher the energy leveloccupied by an electron, the ?? it takes to move from that energy level to the next higher level   less  
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The modern description of the electrons in atoms, the ???, comes from the mathematical solutions to Schrodinger equation.   quantum mechanical model  
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The probability of finding an electron within a certain volume of space around the nucleus is represented y a ??.   fuzzy cloud  
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Attempts to show probabilities as a fuzzy cloud are usually limited to the volume in which the electron is found ?? of the time   90 percent  
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An ?? is often thought of as a region of space in which there is a high probability of finding an electron.   atomic orbital  
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The energy levels of electrons in quantum mechanical model are labeled by ???.   principal quantum number  
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For each principal level, there may be several orbitals with ?? and at different ??.   different orbitals energy levels  
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S orbitals are ? shaped.   spherical  
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P orbitals are ? shaped.   dumbbell  
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The three p suborbitals have different ? in space.   orientations  
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The first energy level can hold a maximum of ? electrons.   2  
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The second energy level can hold a maximum of ? electrons.   8  
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The third energy level can hold a maximum of ? electrons.   18  
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The fourth energy level can hold a maximum of ? electrons.   32  
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The s orbital has how many suborbitals?   none  
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The p orbitals has how many suborbitals?   3  
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The d ortials has how many suborbitals.   5  
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The f orbital has how many suborbitals?   7  
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?? is the way in which electrons are arranged in various orbitals around the nuclei of atoms.   electron configuration  
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According to the ??, electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first.   aufbau principle  
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According to the ???. an atomic orbital may describe at most ? electrons.   2  
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According to Hund's rule, one electron enter each orbital until each orbital has electrons with the ???.   same spin direction  
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The ? of a wave is the wave's height.   amplitude  
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The ? represents the distance between crests.   wavelength  
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The ? of a wave is the number of wave cycles to pass a given point per unit of time.   frequecy  
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The SI unit for cycles per second is called a ?.   hertz  
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Light consists of ??.   electromagnetic waves  
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All electromagnetic waves move a the ? speed in a vacuum.   same  
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Sunlight consists of light with a continuous range of ? and ?.   wavelength, frequency  
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Band of colored light produced when whit light passes through a prism.   spectrum  
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The frequencies of light emitted by an element separate into discrete lines to give the ??? of the element.   atomic emission spectrum  
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When an electron has its ?? energy, the atom is in its ground state.   lowest possible  
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Light can also be considered to be composed of "packets" of energy know as ?.   photons  
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The ??? states that is impossible to know exactly both the velocity and the position a subatomic particle at the same time.   Heisenberg uncertainty principle  
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