Practice - Electron Configurations and Energy Levels
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Practice Questions
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What is the Aufbau Principle?
💡 Hint: Think about how builders construct a building—starting from the ground floor.
How do you write the electron configuration for an element?
💡 Hint: Remember how we filled orbitals in the sessions.
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Interactive Quizzes
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Which principle states that no two electrons can have the same set of quantum numbers?
💡 Hint: Focus on the rule on electron pairing.
True or False: Hund's Rule indicates that electrons fill degenerate orbitals in pairs first.
💡 Hint: Think about minimizing energy levels in the atom.
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Challenge Problems
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Given the following electron configuration: [Kr] 5s² 4d¹⁰ 5p⁵, identify the element and explain its significance in the periodic table.
💡 Hint: Look at the group number in the periodic table for the element's characteristics.
Explain the implications of the quantum mechanical model in comparison to Bohr's model regarding electron energies.
💡 Hint: Think about how probability distributions change our view of atomic reactions.
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