Unit 2 Chapter 1 Flashcards
octet rule
tendency to prefer to have 8 electrons in the valence shell
empirical knowledge
obtained through results of experiments
theoretical knowledge
obtained through observations
*An attempt to use familiar ideas
to describe unfamiliar things in a
visual way.
*It can be changed as new
information is collected.
scientific model
Democritus VS Aristotle
Things are made of atoms VS 4 earth elements
Dalton’s Billiard Ball Model
THOUGHT atoms were indivisible (False)
Atoms of the same element have identical properties. ✅
- Atoms of different elements combine
in constant ratios to form compounds
(Law of Constant composition)✅ - Chemical reactions involve the
rearrangement of atoms; no new
atoms are created or destroyed (Law
of Conservation of Mass) ✅
Thomson
Empirical Evidence:
*As an electric current passed through a
gas, it gave off rays of negatively
charged particles.
* However, the gas was surprisingly
uncharged (neutral).
Conclusions:
*A particle smaller than an atom had to
exist.
– negative charges (e-s) came from
within the atom
ATOM WAS DIVISIBLE!
THOUGHT *There must be positively charged
particles in the atom, but he could never
find them.
Plum pudding
Thomson
FOUND ELECTRONS !!!
involved firing a stream
of tiny positively
charged alpha particles
at a thin sheet of gold
foil
* expected positive
charges to be spread
out evenly and
not enough to stop an
alpha particle
Rutherford’s Gold foil experiment
Empirical Evidence:
*Most of the positively charged alpha particles passed
straight through the gold foil.
*Some of the positively charged alpha particles
bounce away from the gold foil as if they
had hit something solid.
Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment Conclusion
Conclusions:
*Gold atoms in the sheet were mostly empty space.
– Atoms were not a pudding filled with a positively
charged material (Thompson).
*An atom has a small, dense, positively charged
center (i.e. NUCLEUS) that repelled the
positively charged alpha particles.
.: Nucleus is tiny compared to the atom as a whole.
HE FOUND PROTONS
_______ Model by rutherford
all of an atom’s positively charged
particles were
contained in the
nucleus.
* Negatively charged
particles were
scattered outside the
nucleus around the
atom’s edge.
Student of Rutherford - Chadwick
modified
Rutherford’s Mostly
Empty Space model
* atoms have a third
subatomic particle
being
NEUTRONS
in the nucleus
Bohr’s Planetary Atom Model
Electrons orbit the nucleus in circular
paths of fixed energy (ENERGY LEVELS).
* Electrons can jump (i.e.
transition) from energy level
to energy level.
* The higher the energy level, the
further it is away from the nucleus.
* PHOTONS are bundles of light
energy that that are emitted by
electrons as they go from higher
energy levels to lower energy levels.
ground state + excited state
Ground state is the lowest possible
energy level an
electron can be at.
excited state is an energy level
higher than the
ground state.
P.E.N
subatomic particles