Electronic Structure of Atoms
Key Terms
Words that can be used as topics in essays:
amplitude, ψ
atomic radii
atomic spectrum
Aufbau principle
Balmer series, nlo= 2
Bohr model
continuous spectrum
de Broglie relation
degenerate orbital
diamagnetic
effective nuclear charge, Zeff
electromagnetic radiation
electron affinity
electron configuration
electronegativity
electron spin
emission spectra
excited state
frequency, ν
ground state
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Hund’s rule
ionic radiiionization energy
isoelectronic
line spectrum
Lyman series,nlo= 1
nodal surface
orbital
orbital diagram
paramagnetic
Paschen series, nlo= 3
Pauli exclusion principle
penetration effect
photon
probability distribution
quantization
quantum mechanics
quantum numbers
shielding
Schrödinger equation
valence electrons
wave function
wavelength, λ
wave mechanical model
wave-particle duality of nature