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PHYS 1010
Ch. 11, The Atomic Nature of Matter
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10/22/2013

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1a. Democritus created and came up with the idea of what?
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1a. Democritus is credited with coming up with the idea of the atom as the indivisible constituent of matter but
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1b. Aristotle’s 5-elements idea did what?
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1b. it continue to hold sway.
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2a. 4-elements idea isn’t so bad since?
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2a. There are actually 4 states of matter associated with his idea.
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2b. what are the Aristotelian elements:
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2b. solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
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3a. Robert Brown (1773 - 1858)discovered?
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3a. Robert Brown discovered that pollen grains in a microscope bounce around in water.
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3b. Robert Brown thought they had some type of power, but really?
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3b. the same happen to dirt and soot when looking through the microscope in water.
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4a. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)explained Brownian motion in terms of what.
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4a. invisible atoms banging against the huge dust particles.
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5a. It’s like watching from an airplane as a huge ball is banged around by people you don’t see.
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5a. Brownian in motion
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6a. Richard Feynman thought the scientific statement of most value to future generations if all else were lost would be?
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6a. All things are made of atoms
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6b. Richard Feynman's little particles moved around in perpetual motion as well as what?
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6b. attracting each other and also repelling when they are squeezed towards one another.
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Characteristics of Atoms
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Characteristics of Atoms
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7a. like an atom you are like to?
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7a. The Sun
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8a. the size of an atom is to an apple?
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8a. an apple to the earth
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9a. atoms are numerous: about as many atoms in a thimbleful of water in what to the earth?
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9a. thimbleful of water on Earth
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10a. about as many atoms in a breath of air?
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are breaths of air in the earth's atmosphere
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11a. atoms get around and migrate more in the air then in water, but they migrate the slowest in what?
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11a. Solids
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12a. atoms make up everything and even once part of what?
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12a. Organism
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13a. Humans are made up of the same kind of atoms ( H, O, C, ect.) but most don't realize what?
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13a. organism are made up recycle atoms.
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14a. H forms in what?
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14a. Big Bang
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14b. heaver elements like O and C later were created where?
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14b. in Stars
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14c. what in the universe formed the earth
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14c. mainly heaver elements from post-Big Bang stars.
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15a. how old is H in your body?
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15a. as old as the universe
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15b. the O and C in the earth are older then the earth why?
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15b. stars came after the big bang and heaver elements like O and C were formed in stars.
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16a. which older atom in the body of an elderly person or those in a body in a baby?
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16a. Neither
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17a. World population grows each year. Does this mean that the mass of the Earth increases each year?
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17a. No, because matter is recycle within the earth
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18a. Are there atoms in your body that were once part of Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, ancient dinosaurs?
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18a. Yes, because they are also recycle within the earth
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19a. You can’t see atoms through a microscope, because there to small for what?
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19a. wave length of light
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19b. what can you see through a microscope that's the smallest?
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19b. molecules
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19c. how can we see images of molecules?
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19c. and you can make images using electron microscopes
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20a. consequently of gold form experiments, Ernest Rutherford came up with what?
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20a. the solar system model of the atom in which the nucleus was likened to the Sun and electrons were likened to planets orbiting the Sun.
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21a. ATYI, more accurate Quantum Mechanical model shows electrons how?
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21a. orbiting the nucleus, but they are orbitals(probability clouds) localized near the nucleus.
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22a. ATYI, the size of the nucleus is to the size of the atom as thesize of a ballpoint pen tip at the 50 yard line is to the size of a football stadium, yet most of the mass is in the nucleus.
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22a. ATYI, the size of the nucleus is to the size of the atom as thesize of a ballpoint pen tip at the 50 yard line is to the size of a football stadium, yet most of the mass is in the nucleus.
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23a. the size of the nucleus to the size of the atom is like a ball point pin tip to what?
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23a. "50 yard line is to the size of a football stadium, yet most of the mass is in the nucleus."
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24a. ATYI, protons and neutrons in the nucleus attract to each other via what?
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24a. nuclear force
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25a. Electrons are negatively charged with about 1/2000 the mass of what?
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25a. a Proton
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25b. how does electromagnetic force affect atom effect?
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25b. electron and protons via that force.
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26a. when protons and electrons differ then the atom is what?
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26a. Ion; positive ion if there’s an excess of protons, negative ion if there’s an excess of electrons.
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27a. when atoms are brought close together they tend to what?
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27a. bond
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27b. if the nuclei brought close enough they might what?
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27b. fuse
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The Elements
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The Elements
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28a. we refer to elements as what?
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28a. faces of matter compose of atoms
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29a. SKIP
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29a. SKIP
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30a. The most common elements in the___ are___?
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30a. A) universe; hydrogen and helium.
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31a. Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907) is credited with what?
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31a. Periodic Table of Elements.
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32a. Based on gaps in his table Mendeleev predicted what?
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32a. the future of elements that was later discovered.
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33a. Periodic Table is ordered by what (order by two ways)?
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33a. there are: atomic, the number of protons in the nucleus.
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33b. when moving from the left to the right what take place?
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33b. each element has one more proton than the one to its left.
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34a. elements in the same column?
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34a. similar properties.
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34b. elements in the last column are called?
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34b. noble gases, because they don't react chemically.
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35a. what pars of elements are most similar to phosphorus?
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35a. N and As
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36a. The sizes of atoms (where the outermost electrons are)?
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36a. gradually increase in the periodic table down and to the left.
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37a. Based on Quantum Mechanics how does the electrons work?
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37a. Based on Quantum Mechanics has a set number of electrons for each shell.
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38a. the third shell has room for 18 electrons, but the shell wont isn't filled until when?
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38a. later
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39a. What fundamental force dictates the atomic size?
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39a. 1/12 of a C nucleus (P 205) 1.67 * 10 super script -24.
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40a. what is an isotopes?
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40a. they differ in neutrons.
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41a. The isotopes are numbered how?
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41a. by nucleons (protons + neutrons).
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42a. SKIP
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42a. SKIP
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43a. ATYI, C-14 has 6 protons like C-12, but C-12 has a difference in what?
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43a. 2 extra neutrons
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44a. Which contributes more to an atom’s mass, electrons or protons?
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44a. same
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44b. Which contributes more to the atoms mass, electrons or protons?
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44b. Same
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45a. Which is represented by a whole number: the mass number or the atomic mass?
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45a. atomic mass
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46a. Do two isotopes of iron have the same atomic number?
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46a. No
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46b. The same mass number?
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46b. different mass number
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Compounds, Mixtures, and Molecules
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Compounds, Mixtures, and Molecules
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47a. SKIP
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47a. SKIP
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48a. SKIP
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48a. SKIP
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49a. although atoms in alloys are bonded together (metallically), they are treated like what?
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49a. mixtures
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50a. Is pure table salt an element, a compound, or a mixture?
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50a. compound
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50b. How about the salt you buy at the store?
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50b. mixture
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51-all SKIP
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51-all SKIP
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