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| the distance from a wave's crest or trough to it's origin |
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| the number of waves that pass a poing per unit of time |
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| What is the symbol for frequency? |
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| the greek letter that looks like a v |
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| What is the symbol for wavelength? |
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| What is Planck's constant represented by? |
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| the minimum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an atom |
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| the distance between two points in a wave set. crest to crest or trough to trough |
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| the bottom of the wavelength also called a trough |
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| the highest point in a wavelength |
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| What kind of wavelenth does a Higher frequency produce? |
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| What kind of wavelenth does a lower frequency produce? |
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| What is an atomic orbital? |
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| a 3-D region around the nucleus of an atom that describes an electron's probable location |
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| What is an energy sublevel? |
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| the energy levels contained within a principle sublevel |
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| the lowest allowable energy state of an atom |
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| What is the Heisenbergy uncertainty principle? |
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| states that it is not possible to know precisely both the velocity and the position of a particle at the same time |
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| What are the principle energy levels? |
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| the major energy levels of an atom |
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| In quantum numbers, what does "n" represent? |
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| In quantum numbers, what does "l" represent? |
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| In quantum numbers what does "m" represent? |
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| which plane the orbital is in |
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| In quantum numbers, what does "ms" represent? |
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| the direction that the orbital spins |
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| What is the quantum mechanical model of the atom? |
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| An atomic model in which electrons are treated as waves; also called the wave mechanical model of the atom |
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| When is a light quantized? |
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| frequency of light has its own specific energy per photon and no other. |
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| the small specific amounts that matter gains/loses energy in |
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| the minimum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an atom |
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| What is the aufbau principle? |
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| states that each electron occupies the lowest energy orbital available |
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| What is electron configuration? |
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| the arrangement of electrons in an atom, which is prescribed by 3 rules-the aufbau principle, the Pauli exclusion principle, and Hund's rule |
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| States that single electrons with the same spin must occupy each equal-energy orbital before additional electrons with opposite spins can occupy the same orbital |
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| What is the Pauli exclusion principle? |
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| States that a maximum of two electrons can occupy a single atomic orbital but only if the electrons have opposite spins |
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| What are valence electrons? |
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| electrons in an atom's outermost orbital; determine the chemical properties of an element |
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| What is an orbital diagram? |
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| the circles with the arrows in them |
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| What is frequency measured in? |
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| What is wavelength measured in? |
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| What does each different color of light have? |
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| What is the shape of the "s" orbital? |
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| What is the shape of the "p" orbital? |
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| List the orbitals in order. |
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| 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s, 4f, 5d, 6p, 7s, 5f, 6d, 7p, 8s |
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| How many electrons does the sublevel "s" hold? |
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| How many electrons does the sublevel "p" hold? |
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| How many electrons does the sublevel "d" hold? |
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| How many electrons does the sublevel "f" hold? |
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| What is an excited state? |
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| where atoms absorb energy causing them to move to higher energy levels for a short peroid of time then dropping back down to lower energy levels |
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| How do atoms emit energy that them have from returning to a lower level after being in an excited state? |
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| What is ionization energy? |
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| the amount of energy that is needed to remove an electron from a gaseous state |
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| How do you write something in Noble gas notation? |
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| take the noble gas that comes right before the element and put it in brackets [] then put the rest of the electron configuration that is not included in the noble gas to the right of the brackets |
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