CE 1301 Engineering Chemistry

Unit 02- Tutorial

Quantum Mechanical Model of Atom

1. What is the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation which has a frequency of 4.464 x

1014 s-1?

2. Calculate the frequency of visible light having a wavelength of 464.1 nm

3. A police radar unit is operating on a frequency of 9.527 Gigahertz. What is the

wavelength of the radiation being employed?

4. What is the energy, in joules, of one photon of microwave radiation with a wavelength of
0.158 m?

5. What is the energy, in joules, of one photon of visible radiation with a wavelength of
464.1 nm?

6. What is the wavelength, in nm, of radiation which has an energy of 3.371 x 10-19 joules
per photon?

7. Calculate the energy required to excite a hydrogen atom by causing an electronic

transition from the energy level with n = 1 to the level with n = 4.

8. Calculate the frequency of the light emitted by a hydrogen atom during a transition of its
electron from the energy level with n = 6 to the level with n = 3.

9. State the number of possible electrons described by the following quantum numbers
a. n = 3, l = 0
b. n = 3, l = 1
c. n = 3, l = 2, ml = -1
d. n = 5, l = 0, ml -2, ms -1/2

10. Give the n and l values for the following orbitals

a. 1s
b. 3s
c. 2p
d. 4d
e. 5f

11. What are the ml values for the following types of orbitals?
a. s
b. p
 c. d
d. f

12. How many possible orbitals are there for n=

a. 4
b. 6

13. Write the complete set of quantum numbers that represent the valence electrons for the
following elements
a. He
b. V
c. Ni
d. Cu
e. Br

14. Write the values for the quantum numbers for the bold electron in the below given
diagrams
a. 3p orbitals

b. 5s

c. 4d orbitals

d. 3d orbitals

15. Write the ground state electron configurations for the following elements
a. B
b. V
c. Ni
d. As
e. I
f. Au

Additional question – Chang, Chemistry – pages 303-310