Chapter 6 Student Competencies

Upon completion of this chapter, students should be able to:

Know the relative placement in terms of wavelength, frequency, and energy of the various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
For a given photon, calculate the energy, frequency, or wavelength.
Convert between maximum wavelengths and dissociation energies.
Diagram the photoelectric effect; solve problems involving photon energy, electron kinetic energy, and the minimum energy required to eject electrons from a metal surface.
Calculate changes in energy associated with electronic transitions for the the hydrogen atom.
Determine the Debroglie wavelength of a particle.
Know the four quantum numbers, the values they can have, and what each quantum number represents.
Discuss the orientations in space of s, p, and d orbitals in various shells.
For multielectron atoms, know the ordering of the energies of atomic orbitals.
Draw the electron configuration and orbital diagram for any given atom.
State Hund's rule and why it applies to atoms in the ground state.