GENERAL CHEMISTRY

Chapter 7 -- Key Concepts

• Understand the qualitative relationships among energy, frequency and wavelength of light.

• Understand and use the quantitative relationships among energy, frequency and wavelength of light.

• Identify regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

• Understand the concept of quantization.

• Understand the origin of the lines in the spectrum of atomic hydrogen

• Use the Rydberg equation to determine the values of hydrogen atom energy levels.

• Describe the quantum numbers associated with electrons.

• Identify the quantum numbers associated with specific electrons in orbitals.

• Describe the size, shape and orientation of electron shells.

• Use the Pauli exclusion principle to assign electrons in atoms.

• Write electron configurations for elements.

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