General Chemistry I: Chapter 6 Handout

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Electromagnetic Radiation
Terms to Know:

• Amplitude: Height of the peek

• Wavelength distance between peek
• Frequency # of waves passing a point in a given time
• Speed of Light c = 3* 10^8 m/s

What is the formula for the speed of light?

What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?

DeBroglie Wavelength Formula: λ= h/ (mv)

1. What is the wavelength of light with a frequency of 52.3 GHz?

2. What is the frequency of light with a wavelength of 520 nm?

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Electromagnetic Spectrum

Place the following in order from highest energy to lowest energy and from lowest to

highest wavelength.

• Blue light
• Infrared
• Ultraviolet
• Red light
• Gamma rays
• Radio
• Microwave

Planck’s Constant: Energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency

• h = 6.63 × 10-34 J∙s

• E = hν/ λ

3. What is the energy per mole for light with a wavelength of 960 nm?

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4. What is the wavelength of a photon if 2 moles of that photon have a total of 5.2 × 10J of
energy?

5. What is the energy per mole for a light with a frequency of 9*10^14 Hz?

6. What is the energy (in Joules) of a 455 nm photon?

a. 4.86 ´ 10-36 J
b. 9.04 ´ 10-32 J
c. 4.37 ´ 10-19 J
d. 1.46 ´ 10-18 J

Atomic Spectra

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Bohr model: describe the line spectrum of the hydrogen atoms

Limitation: only for 1 electron systems

Identify the ground state and excited states in the diagram below:

7. Identify which transition emits the highest and lowest wavelength, highest and

lowest energy, and highest and lowest frequency.

Quantum Numbers
What is a quantum number?

Facts about Quantum Numbers

• n = shell
o n>0
• l = subshell
l=0: s; l=1: p; l=2, d; l=3: f
• n-1
• ml = orbital
o ±l

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• ms = spin number

o±½

o Not obtained from Schrodinger’s equation

Fill in all possible quantum numbers for the following:

n l m l

2p

3d

4s

8. Which of the following is a possible set of quantum numbers for an electron in an

atom?

a. n = 1, l = 1, ml = 1
b. n = 2, l = 0, ml = -1
c. n = 0, l = 0, ml = 0
d. n = 3, l = 1, ml = -1

9. What is the maximum number of orbitals that can be occupied by electrons in the n = 2

shell?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 9

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10. What is the maximum number of orbitals that can be identified with the following
quantum numbers: n= 5, l = 3?

a. 1

b. 3

c. 5

d. 7

11. A particular orbital has n = 4, l = 2. Identify the orbital.

a. 2f

b. 2g

c. 4p

d. 4d

12. Of the following orbitals choices- 1p, 2d, 3d, 4f- are proper?

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