Chemistry Ch. 5 Vocab

What is the height of a wave's crest called?

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Velocity

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What describes the probability of finding an electron at various locations?

• Aufbau principle

• Atomic orbital

• Hund's rule

• Quantum

What type of energy waves travel in a vacuum at a speed of 2.988 x 10^8 m/s?

• Sound waves

• Electromagnetic radiation

• Mechanical waves

• Thermal radiation

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What is the arrangement of electrons in an atom's ground state called?

• Electron configurations

• Atomic emission spectrum

• Quantum

• Photon

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What term describes the specific energies an electron can have in an atom?

• Frequency

• Energy levels

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

Which rule states that electrons occupy orbitals of the same energy in a way that maximizes the number of electrons with the same spin direction?

• Hund's rule

• Aufbau principle

• Pauli exclusion principle

• Heisenberg uncertainty principle

What does the spectrum refer to in terms of light?

• The speed of light in a vacuum

• The color of light

• Wavelengths of visible light separated by a prism

• The intensity of light

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What is the definition of wavelength?

• The height of a wave

• The distance between adjacent crests of a wave

• The speed of a wave

• The frequency of a wave

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Which of the following is a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation?

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Spectrum

• Velocity

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What is primarily mathematical in the quantum mechanical model?

• The description of protons

• The description of neutrons

• The description of electrons

• The description of atoms

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