Study guide for Chapter 6
You should be able to:
• explain properties characterizing waves, such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude,
velocity, and wavenumber and relationships between them.
• recall main regions in electromagnetic spectrum and order (with respect to
wavelength or frequency) in which they follow (see Fig. 6.4).
• describe the experiments that led to the quantum mechanics (black-body radiation,
photoelectric effect, atomic spectra).
• discuss the atomic orbitals in hydrogen atom: quantum numbers, orbital energies,
transition energies (and corresponding frequencies and wavelengths), shapes of the
orbitals.
• understand Pauli Exclusion Principle and Hund’s Rule and their impact on electron
configuration of multi-electron atoms.
• write electron configuration of an atom of any element in periodic table.
• understand the difference between ground and excited state configurations; be able to
write excited state configuration and decide if given configuration is that of ground or
excited state.
