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Chapter 5, Electrons in Atoms: vocab and key ideas

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What are energy levels?   the fixed energies an electron can have.  
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What is a quantum of energy?   the amount of energy required to move an electron from one energy level to another energy level.  
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The modern description of the electrons in atoms is known as what?   the quantum mechanical model  
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What mathematical solution did the quantum mechanical model come from?   the Scrodinger equation  
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The quantum mechanicalmodel determines what?   the allowed energies an electron can have and how likely it is to find the electron in various locations around the nucleus of an atom.  
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What does the atomic orbital describe?   the probability of finding an electron at various locations around the nucleus.  
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Orbitals describe where an electron is likely to be ______.   found  
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What was John Dalton's theory of what an atom was/looked like?   a tiny soild sphere  
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The ways in which electrons are arranged in various orbitals around the nuclei of atoms are called what?   electron configuration  
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According the the ____ principle, electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first.   aufbau  
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What principle states that an atomic orbital may describe at most two electrons?   Pauli exclusion principle  
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Define spin:   a quantum mechanical property of electrons and may be thought of as clockwise or counterclockwise.  
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According to Hund's theory, electrons occupy what?   orbitals of the same energy in a way that makes the number of electrons with the same spin direction as large as possible/  
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The amplitude of a wave is the wave's what?   the wave's height from zero to the crest  
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What is the distance between the crets known as?   the wavelenght (also represented by the Greek letter lambda)  
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The frequency, represented by the Geek letter nu, is the number of what?   wave numbers to pass a given point per unit of time.  
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The SI unit of cycles per second is called what?   hertz  
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______ includes: radio waves, light waves, infared waves,visible light, ulraviolet rays, x-rays and gamma rays.   Electromagnetic radiation  
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When sunlight enters a prism, the different wavelenghts separate into a _______ of colors.   spectrum  
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What are photons?   light auantas  
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When is the atom at ground state?   when the electron has its lowest possible energy  
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What does the Heinsenberg uncertainty principal state?   it is impossible to know both the velocity and the position of a particle at the same time.  
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