9th Grade

ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION
Unlike planets orbiting the Sun, electrons cannot be at any arbitrary
distance from the nucleus; they can exist only in certain specific
locations called allowed orbits.

This property, first explained by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, is

another result of quantum mechanics

Niels Bohr Model

In the Bohr atom electrons can be
found only in allowed orbits, and
these allowed orbits are at
different energies.
Energy Levels

The first quantum number is designated by n and is the principal energy level.
The principal energy level definition tells the observer the size of the orbital and determines
energy.
An increase in n is an increase in energy, and this also means the electron is farther away from
the nucleus.
Valance electrons

Each level is divided into Sublevels or secondary quantum number

The maximum number of sublevels is 4 and they can be of 4
classes:
It is the way in which the electrons of an atom are arranged
around the nucleus, in other words and according to the Bohr
model, the electronic configuration tells us in which energy
levels and sublevels the electrons of an atom are found.

Electronic Configuration