Download AP Chemistry – Chapter 6 Reading Guide: Electronic Structure of

AP Chemistry – Chapter 6 Reading Guide: Electronic Structure of Atoms
1.
Describe the wave properties and characteristic speed of electromagnetic radiation.
2. Explain the relationship between frequency and wavelength.
3. Explain Planck’s constant and how it relates to energy.
4. Explain how Einstein accounted for the photoelectric effect.
5. List the assumptions made by Bohr in his model of the Hydrogen atom.
6. Explain the concept of an allowed energy state and how this concept relates to quantum theory.
7. Explain how to calculate the wavelength of a particle knowing its mass and velocity.
8. Describe the uncertainty principle and explain the limitation it places on our ability to define
simultaneously the location and momentum of a subatomic particle, particularly electrons.
9. Explain the concepts of orbital, electron density, and probability in the quantum mechanical
model of the atom.
10. Draw an s, p, d orbital.
11. Explain electron spin.
12. State the Pauli Exclusion Principle and Hund’s Rule and Illustrate how they are used in writing
electron configurations.
13. Describe what is meant by the s, p, d, and f blocks of the periodic table. Explain where they are
found on the periodic table.
14. Explain how the periodic table can be used to write the electron configuration of an element.