Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Electron Configuration

Okay so its my turn to blog, but today was confusing a bit so i might not do a good job.
Today we learned about electron configuration.

Which is about how energy levels of electrons are designated by principal quantum numbers(n)
each energy level is divided into sublevels. in each level maximum # of electrons is set. we name each level, and the 1st level is called 1s (s for sublevel)
ahhh so hard to explain>>>
in each orbital we can fit 2 electrons.
okay so in "S" we have 1 orbital.
when we reach a higher level we name it differently like 2p which has has 3 orbitals
so the diagram would be.
S= 1 orbital
p= 3 orbitals
d= 5 orbitals
f= 7 orbitals

1s2
1= 1 level
s= number of orbitals
2= number of electrons.

example:
1s2, 2s2
which would mean 1st level has 2 electrons which fills the whole orbital
2nd level had 2 electrons but only fills 1/3 of the orbitals.

I hope this helped cuz i didn't understand it at first.
Angela to scribe tomorrow!

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