General Chemistry ACS Final Exam
Questions and Verified Answers
Protons - ✔✔defines the element; positive charge; equal to the atomic number
Neutrons - ✔✔equal to mass number-number of protons; neutral charge
Electrons - ✔✔negative charge; dependent on the charge of the atom
Cations - ✔✔Positively charged ions
Anions - ✔✔Negatively charged ions
Isotopes - ✔✔when the number of neutrons varies but it has the same number
of protons ex) Ne-20 and Ne-22`
What was believed until the beginning of the 20th century? - ✔✔That all
physical phenomena were deterministic
Light - ✔✔Form of electromagnetic radiation
What is electromagnetic radiation composed of? - ✔✔perpendicular oscillating
waves, one for the magnetic field and one for the electric field
Speed of light constant - ✔✔3.00*10^8 m/s or 3.00*10^17 nm/s
Quantum number n - ✔✔size, n>1
Quantum number l - ✔✔shape, l=0 to (n-1)
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, Quantum number ml - ✔✔orientation, -l to +l
s orbital - ✔✔l=0, 1 orbital
p orbital - ✔✔l=1, 3 orbitals
d orbital - ✔✔l=2, 5 orbitals
f orbital - ✔✔l=3, 7 orbitals
Electron configurations - ✔✔description of the orbitals occupied by electrons
Valence electrons - ✔✔in the electron configuration they are the electrons
associated with highest principle valence shell orbital
Nonmetallic character trend - ✔✔increases from left to right and bottom to top
Electron Affinity trend - ✔✔get more negative from left to right and bottom to
top
Ionization Energy trend - ✔✔increases from left to right and bottom to top
Metallic Character trend - ✔✔gets more metallic from right to left and top to
bottom
Atomic Radius trend - ✔✔increases from top to bottom and right to left
Naming molecular compounds - ✔✔prefix+1st element+prefix+base name of
2nd -ide
mono - ✔✔one
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Questions and Verified Answers
Protons - ✔✔defines the element; positive charge; equal to the atomic number
Neutrons - ✔✔equal to mass number-number of protons; neutral charge
Electrons - ✔✔negative charge; dependent on the charge of the atom
Cations - ✔✔Positively charged ions
Anions - ✔✔Negatively charged ions
Isotopes - ✔✔when the number of neutrons varies but it has the same number
of protons ex) Ne-20 and Ne-22`
What was believed until the beginning of the 20th century? - ✔✔That all
physical phenomena were deterministic
Light - ✔✔Form of electromagnetic radiation
What is electromagnetic radiation composed of? - ✔✔perpendicular oscillating
waves, one for the magnetic field and one for the electric field
Speed of light constant - ✔✔3.00*10^8 m/s or 3.00*10^17 nm/s
Quantum number n - ✔✔size, n>1
Quantum number l - ✔✔shape, l=0 to (n-1)
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, Quantum number ml - ✔✔orientation, -l to +l
s orbital - ✔✔l=0, 1 orbital
p orbital - ✔✔l=1, 3 orbitals
d orbital - ✔✔l=2, 5 orbitals
f orbital - ✔✔l=3, 7 orbitals
Electron configurations - ✔✔description of the orbitals occupied by electrons
Valence electrons - ✔✔in the electron configuration they are the electrons
associated with highest principle valence shell orbital
Nonmetallic character trend - ✔✔increases from left to right and bottom to top
Electron Affinity trend - ✔✔get more negative from left to right and bottom to
top
Ionization Energy trend - ✔✔increases from left to right and bottom to top
Metallic Character trend - ✔✔gets more metallic from right to left and top to
bottom
Atomic Radius trend - ✔✔increases from top to bottom and right to left
Naming molecular compounds - ✔✔prefix+1st element+prefix+base name of
2nd -ide
mono - ✔✔one
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