Topics and Learning Outcomes

Atomic Structure
- list the particles that make up atoms, their symbols and their relative masses and charges
- calculate the average atomic mass from isotope information
- identify the components of the wave equation
- convert between the wavelength, frequency and energy of light
- explain the meaning of the orbital quantum numbers, n, l, m, and the designation of orbitals such as 1s, 3d, 4p, 4f.
- recognise the shapes of s, p and d atomic orbitals in these representations

Textbook and eBook References

Assumed Knowledge - Chapters 1 - 3
Atomic Structure - Sections 4.1 - 4.4 and 4.6

references are to: Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley)

Limiting reagents (in Wikibooks General Chemistry)
Balancing equations (in Wikibooks General Chemistry)
Chemical equations (in Wikibooks General Chemistry)
Stoichiometry (in Wikibooks General Chemistry)
ChemTutor (in ChemWiki)
The quantum model (in Wikibooks General Chemistry)

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Atomic Structure

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Properties of Waves (short video tutorial)

Description: Short video tutorial on the properties of waves
Tags: Waves | wavelength | frequency | radiation | Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Atomic orbitals (rotatable animations)

Tags: atomic orbitals | Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Gallery of atomic and molecular orbitals