Module 02: Atoms and Elements Flashcards
02.01 Atomic Theory 02.02 Electromagnetic Radiation 02.03 Quantization of Energy 02.04 Quantum Models 02.05 Honors Electrons 02.06 Periodic Table 02.07 Periodic Trends 02.08 Contributions to Chemistry
What did John Dalton contribute to science in 1803?
Devised a way to indirectly observe atomic nature
- temperature
- atmospheric conditions
- wind patterns
What does the word “atom” mean?
Derived from the Greek term meaning “cannot be cut into smaller pieces”.
What is Dalton’s Atomic Theory?
All matter is composed of extremely small particles → atoms
- Atoms of element: identical (size, mass, etc)
- not broken down into smaller pieces
Law of Conservation of Mass
Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed
Law of Multiple Proportions
Atoms of different elements can combine > compound (whole-number ratio)
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed
What is the Law of Multiple Proportions?
Atoms of different elements can combine > compound (whole-number ratio)
How did Dalton’s Theory prove durable?
Dalton’s original theory provides explanation to atomic structure. 200 years additional support for theory
Define subatomic particles?
particles smaller than an atom
- Protons
- Neutrons
- Electrons
Explain how J. J. Thomson discovered electrons (1867-1906)?
Experiment:
- loved cathode rays
- discovered smaller, negative particles in an atom
- called: electrons
Conclusion:
Thomson hypothesized that these corpuscles were scattered within a positively charged atom
Explain Ernest Rutherford’s contribution to the understanding of atoms (especially the nucleus)?
Who: Ernest Rutherford (student J. J. Thomson)
Experiment:
behavior particles as they were radiated onto a piece of gold foil
- some particles not pass strait through
- some scattered
- others bounced back
Conclusion:
Something big, positively charged in the center of the atom → nucleus
composed of protons and neutrons
What contribution did James Chadwick make to the understanding of the nucleus?
Experiment:
- Found neutrons
- bombarded beryllium atoms with alpha particles → unknown radiation produced
- Neutral electrical charge
Conclusion:
determined neutron existed in an atom’s nucleus
mass close to the proton
What conclusion did Crookes create related to cathode tubed?
How did Thomson challenge this idea?
Crookes’s Cathode:
Created cathode tube → allowed electrically charged particles flow between electrodes
Conclusion: something was traveling from the negative to the positive side
Thomson’s Electrons:
J. J. Thomas: used cathode ray tubes
negative attracted to the positive side & repelled by the negative side
calculate a mass-to-charge ration
How did Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus challenge Thomson’s hypothesis regarding electrons?
Assumed fast-moving alpha particles pass through piece of tin foil
if Thomas’s model was right nothing would scatter the rays
scattered particles indicated a nucleus
Explain what the Bohr’s Quantum Model is:
Hypothesis:
The energy of a atoms not continue → only certain values
Proposal:
- emitting energy: higher to lower energy level
- absorbing energy: lower to higher energy level
Electrons:
- fixed energy
- only move
Energy Shell:
layers around the nucleus
- 2 first
- 8 second
Comparative to Solar System:
given away to the electron cloud model:
- orbitals
- brightness correlated to density
How did Schrodinger and Heisenberg’s Electron Cloud Theory replace Bohr’s Quantum Model?
electrons not move in exact orbitals (like solar system)
Existed in the electron cloud
- region around the nucleus - mostly empty space - electrons orbit
Define Atoms:
smallest unit of an element that retains the properties of that element
How does the nucleus compare to the electron cloud?
NUCLEUS:
center
most of the mass
Protons:
- positively charged
Neutrons:
- neutral
- identifies the element
ELECTRON CLOUD
area around the nucleus
majority of the volume
Electrons:
- negative particles
- revolve around the nucleus
- ability move from one electron to another
Define Ions:
atom/molecule with a positive or negative charge
Define Isotopes:
atoms of the same element with different masses due to varying number of neutrons
What is the overall charge of a atom?
Neutral
Rutherford’s famous gold foil experiments shot heavy particles at a thin sheet of gold foil. What did he observe, and why did these observations eventually result in the addition of a nucleus to the atomic model? (3 points)
- Some of the heavy particles bounced off the foil, because there are positive particles spread throughout the atom.
- Some of the heavy particles bounced off the foil, because there is a dense, positive area in the atom.
- The heavy particles all passed straight through the foil, because the atoms are mostly empty space.
- The heavy particles all bounced off the foil, because the subatomic particles have mass and volume.
2.
Some of the heavy particles bounced off the foil, because there is a dense, positive area in the atom.
Modern atomic theory states that atoms are neutral. How is this neutrality achieved? (3 points)
- Equal number of neutrons and protons
- Equal number of protons and electrons
- More electrons than protons
- More neutrons than electrons
2. Equal number of protons and electrons
What is true of neutrons? (3 points)
- They have no charge and are located inside the nucleus.
- They have no charge and are located outside the nucleus.
- They are negatively charged and are located inside the nucleus.
- They are negatively charged and are located outside the nucleus.
- They have no charge and are located inside the nucleus.
In the 1800s, one of the statements in John Dalton’s atomic theory was that atoms are indivisible. Later experimental evidence led to the discovery of subatomic particles such as neutrons, electrons, and protons. What happened to the indivisible atom part of Dalton’s atomic theory, and why? (3 points)
- The entire theory was discarded because Dalton’s scientific reputation was ruined once new evidence invalidated part of his theory.
- The indivisible atom part of the theory was discarded because the consensus of data must exist for theories to be valid.
- The theory remained unchanged because Dalton was correct regarding all other statements within the accepted scientific theory.
- The theory remained unchanged because new data is discarded if it doesn’t fit within the accepted theory.
2. The indivisible atom part of the theory was discarded because the consensus of data must exist for theories to be valid.
Which hypothesis of Thomson’s atomic model was later found to be not true by Niels Bohr and why? (5 points)
J. J. Thomson discovered the electron. However, he concluded that the electrons were scattered within the positively charged atom. A few years later, Niels Bohr disproved Thomson’s hypothesis that elections were randomly scattered in the atom. Comparatively, he posed that electrons moved in orbits around the nucleus. Bohr’s hypothesis was built on Rutherford’s discovery of the atom. Rutherford disproved Thomson’s idea that there was an even distribution of particles in the atom; instead, there is a nucleus in the middle (which he found with hid tin foil experiment).
Hence, if there is a positively charged cluster of particles in the middle, there cannot be electron scattered the way Thomson proposed. So Bohr deduced from Rutherford’s theory of the nucleus that the atom had a “solar system” like structure (which was disproven by Schrodinger and Heisenberg later). The electrons, according to the Bohr, were ordered in layers - orbitals - around the nucleus.




























