Electron in Atoms Vocab Quiz

What is the name for the distance from peak to peak of a wave?

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Speed

The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time is...

• frequency

• wave speed

• amplitude

• wavelength

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Electrons occupy orbitals of lowest energy first is part of what electron configuration rule?

• Hund’s Rule
• Aufbau Principle
  
• Pauli Exclusion Principle

The arrangement of electrons in an atom that follows 3 rules.

• quanta

• electron configuration

• electromagnetic spectrum

• ground state

Valence electrons are located...

• inside the nucleus

• in outer space

• on the outermost orbit of an atom

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This term includes all forms of electromagnetic radiation, with the only differences in the types of radiation being their frequencies and wavelengths.

• Electromagnetic spectrum

• Atomic Orbital

• Principle energy level

• electron dot structure

This "rule" of Quantum Chemistry states that it is impossible to know both the position and velocity of an electron at the same time.

• Hund's Rule
• Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
• Aufbau Principle
• Pauli Exclusion Principle

States that a maximum of two electrons may occupy a single atomic orbital, but only if the electrons have opposite spins

• Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

• Hund's Rule

• Pauli Exclusion Principle

• Aufbau Principle

Set of frequencies of electromagnetic waves given off by atoms of an element; consists of a series of fine lines of individual colors

• energy sublevel

• electromagnetic spectrum

• electron configuration

• atomic emission spectrum

An atomic model in which electrons are treated as waves; also called the wave mechanical model of the atom

• Atomic Emission Spectrum

• Amplitude

• Quantum Mechanical Model

• Aufbau Principle