12-15 Flashcards
hunds rule
electron fill in seperate orbitals before they start to share
aufbau
lowest energy
pauli
no electron has same four quantum numbers
principle
the distance of electron to nucleus
orbital
the probabaility of where an electron is found
electrons behave like
waves, they are spread out in the atom
orbitals can be
wave functions
what is used to denote wave function
psi
wave function
x, y, z psi
electron density
greek rho
regions where electrons are likely to be found have
high electron density
regions where electrons are unlikely to be found have
low electron density
how to calculate electron density
sqaure wave function
how to calculate finding electron in a given small volume
volume * square of wave function
orbital energy for only h atoms rely on
principal quantum number
orbital energy in H are
degenerate, if they have the same n number for each orbital
as n increases
energy increases of orbital. this is because the nucleus is positive and the electron is negative.
Why do electrons further from the nucleus have more energy? The farther away from the nucleus an electron is, the less effect the opposite charge (from the nucleus) has on the electron, ergo increasing its electrostatic/potential energy. Electrons closer to the nucleus also shield the outer electrons from some of the effects of the nucleus.
orbital angular momentum quantum number
n-1
nodes
a node in an orbital is a region between opposite phases where electron density is 0.
angular nodes
angular nodes are node we encounter as we go around the orbital.
angular nodes are equal to
l quantum number
magnetic quantum number
distingushes the orientation of the orbitals
s, p, d, f are
orbital types
alpha spin
0.5
beta spin
-0.5
quantum spin number
always equal 0.5 it can equal up and down
principal
size and energy
the shape of the orbital depends on
distance from nucleus
Radial dependance graph
distance from radius as x against the wavefunction
why can wavefunction go up and down
positive and negative phase
the wave
decays to 0. may go up and down