Electronic Structure of Atoms (Electron Configurations)

This text discusses orbital energies and atomic structure, the Aufbau principle, electron configurations and the periodic table, and the electron configurations of ions.

Topics

  • p orbital
  • f orbital
  • d orbital
  • atomic orbital
  • Aufbau principle
  • core electron
  • covalent radius
  • degenerate orbitals effective nuclear charge
  • electron configuration
  • electron density
  • excited state
  • ν
  • ground state
  • Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  • Hund’s rule
  • interference pattern
  • ionization energy
  • isoelectronic
  • magnetic quantum number
  • ml
  • node
  • orbital diagram
  • Pauli exclusion principle
  • photon
  • principal
  • quantum number
  • n
  • quantization
  • quantum mechanics
  • sorbital
  • secondary angular momentum quantum number
  • l
  • shell spin quantum number
  • ms
  • subshell
  • valence electrons
  • valence shell