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Chemistry Electronic Configurations Guide

This document provides a tutorial on atomic structure and the periodic table. It contains 15 questions about writing electronic configurations using different notation methods, ionization energies, atomic sizes, and how properties change across periods and down groups in the periodic table. The questions cover fundamental concepts in chemistry including orbital filling order, ionization energies, atomic radii, and periodic trends.

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Chemistry Electronic Configurations Guide

This document provides a tutorial on atomic structure and the periodic table. It contains 15 questions about writing electronic configurations using different notation methods, ionization energies, atomic sizes, and how properties change across periods and down groups in the periodic table. The questions cover fundamental concepts in chemistry including orbital filling order, ionization energies, atomic radii, and periodic trends.

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Unit 1: Tutorial Series

Module 1: Fundamentals in Chemistry

Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table - II

1. Write the electronic configuration of the following using the arrow and box method:
a) C
c) Mg+
b) Cu
d) Al
e)
2. Write the electronic configuration of the following using the orbital method:
d)
a) N3Mn2+
b) Ar
e) Fe3+
3+
c) Sc
f) V3+
g)
3. Write the electronic configuration of the following using the shorthand arrow and box
method:
a) Clc) Br
b) Fe
d) K
e)
4. Write the electronic configuration of the following using the shorthand orbital
method:
a) Cr
c) Pb2+
3+
b) Ga
d) Cu

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e)
5. Why does the first ionisation energy of atoms generally increase across a period?
6. Why is the first ionisation energy of boron less than that of beryllium?
7. Why is the first ionisation energy of oxygen less than that of nitrogen?
8. Why do first ionisation energies decrease down a group?
9. Why does helium have the highest first ionisation energy of all the elements?
10. Why is the second ionisation energy of an atom always greater than the first?
11. Why is the second ionisation energy of sodium much greater than the first?
12. Why does atomic size decrease across a period?
13. Why does atomic size increase down a group?
14. Why are cations always smaller than the corresponding atoms?
15. Why are anions always larger than the corresponding atoms?

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