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Filling Atomic Orbitals

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Wize University Chemistry Textbook > Quantum Numbers and Electron Configurations

Orbital Filling Diagrams

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Fill the atomic orbital diagram for vanadium below to answer the following questions.

More Orbital Filling Diagrams Questions:
Quantum Numbers
How many electrons can have the following quantum numbers:
a. n = 4
b. n = 4, ms = + 1/2
Practice: Quantum Numbers and Electronic Configuration
1. Which groups of atoms are diamagnetic in their ground electronic states?
2. What would be the electronic configuration of Na if each orbital could hold 3 instead of 2 electrons? Draw the electronic configuration assuming all other rules are valid.
3. What is the maximum number of electrons in an atom that has: n =3, ml = ±1, ms = + 1/2?
Filling Atomic Orbitals
Fill the atomic orbital diagram for scandium below to answer the following questions.
Quantum model: Orbital filling
Draw an atomic orbital diagram for sulfur.
Atom: Electronic configuration
Which of the following orbital diagrams shows a valid ground state electron configuration for an uncharged atom?
Quantum model: Electron configuration
a) What is the full ground state electron configuration (spdf notation) of Al?
b) Draw the energy level diagram for Al.
c) Modify the energy diagram above to show the excited state that required the smallest amount of energy to move the highest energy valence electron to another orbital.
Quantum model: Ground and Excited States
In the energy diagram:
a) Identify all subshells by circling them.
b) Place the name of each subshell next to your circle.
Quantum model: Energy Level Diagram
Consider an atom of the alkali metal Potassium.
a) In the energy diagram given, fill in the required number of electrons for a potassium atom and name the occupied orbitals.
b) The valence electron of potassium can be excited to the next highest energy state in the same valence shell. Below, show how the energy level diagram for the excited atom of potassium has changed. Make sure to name all occupied orbitals.
Orbitals: Lowest energy configuration
Select the orbital diagram of P+ in its lowest energy configuration (ground state).
VSEPR: σ and π Frameworks with Consecutive Double Bonds
Answer the following questions about the species H2CN2, whose Lewis structure is shown below:
Quantum Model: Orbital filling
Which of the following is a correct energy diagram for all the electrons present in a ground state neutral nitrogen atom?
Quantum model: Filling orbitals
Which element has the orbital-filling diagram shown below?
Atom: Electronic configuration
Given the ground-state electronic configuration
[Ar] 4s23d3
1. What is the neutral atom with this electronic configuration?