Chemistry - Chapter 5 Vocabulary

The fixed energies an electron can have.

• energy levels

• quantum

• atomic orbital

• photoelectric effect

The amount of energy required to move an electron from one energy level to another energy level.

• energy level

• atomic orbital

• Quantum

• quantum mechanical model

Came from the mathematical solutions to the Schrodinger equation.

• Quantum mechanical model

• Electron configuration

• Spin

• Hund's rule

Describing the probability of finding an electron at various locations around the nucleus.

• Atomic orbital

• Quantum mechanical model

• Electron configurations

• Aufbau principle

The ways in which electrons are arranged in various orbitals around the nuclei of atoms.

• Electron configurations

• Pauli exclusion principle

• Spin

• Wavelength

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Electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first.

• Wavelength

• Aufbau principle

• Atomic orbital

• Spin

An atomic orbital may describe at most two electrons.

• Pauli exclusion principle

• Aufbau principle

• Frequency

• Hertz

A quantum mechanical property of electrons and may be thought of as clockwise or counterclockwise.

• Hund's rule

• Ground state

• Wavelength

• Spin

Electrons occupy orbitals of the same energy in a way that makes the number of electrons with the same spin direction as large as possible.

• Amplitude

• Spectrum

• Hertz

• Hund's rule