Electron Configuration Worksheet

 

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  1. What is an electron configuration?
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  3. What is the Aufbau Principle?
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  5. How can you figure out how to order the orbitals?                       
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  7. What is Hund’s Rule?
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  9. What is long hand vs. short hand electron configuration?
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  11. What “families” of elements have an exception to the normal method of writing out electron configurations?
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  13. Write the short hand electron configurations for
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    2. Fe
    3. Hf
    4. Cr
    5. Cu

     

     

  14. Which configuration indicates an excited state?                                                      
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    2. 1s22s23p1
    3. 1s22s22p6
    4. 1s22s22p43s1
    5. [Ar]4s13d10                     
                                                                                                                        

     

  15. Write the electron configuration for Sc+.