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Xiangkun Shi 3E

There is not one that you should look at first. Which one is having an effect depends on the molecules your are comparing. For molecules like HF, HCl whose protonation site is directly bonded to the atoms that are being compared, you should look at atomic radius. For molecules like CCl3COOH, CH3COOH...

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Because the CH3 in acetic acid is electron donating. The CH3 contributes electron density towards the O-H bond, which makes it harder to remove the H, thus making acetic acid a weaker acid than formic acid.

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Bronsted acid is a proton donor. Lewis acid is an electron acceptor. All Brønsted-Lowry acids are Lewis acids, but the reverse is not true.

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There are three bond angles in seesaw shape: 90, 180, and between 90 and 120.

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Generally, polar molecules have dipole dipole interactions as there are nonzero charges on the atoms.

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When an atom only contains a single electron, its orbital energies depend only on the principle quantum numbers: a 2s orbital would be degenerate with a 2p orbital. The energy of 1s and 2p will be different.

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VSEPR theory applies to gases just as it applies to other molecules. For example, CH4 is a gas that has a tetrahedral shape and NH3 is also a gas that has trigonal pyramidal shape.

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I'm not sure what you mean by greater rate of dipole dipole moment, but from what I understand, London forces increase when size or mass of atoms increase.

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Knowing the bond angles helps you better understand the shape and structure of the molecule. This will be useful in terms of explaining some physical properties like boiling point as well.

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Since water is polar, the more polar molecule will have higher solubility. Polarity is determined by the difference in electronegativity between two atoms. Since Mg and Ba's electronegativity is 1.2 and 0.9 respectively, and O's electronegativity is 3.5, the difference between O and Ba is larger tha...

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I think if your discussion is on Wednesday and after then you don't. If it's before Wednesday then this depends on you TA.

Xiangkun Shi 3E

Yes, the reasoning from the electronegativity and strength of attraction perspective is the best way to explain this problem.

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I think the professor will discuss more about other shapes next week.

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That is just a covalent bond. The hydrogen bonding in water is intermolecular.

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Usually hydrogen bonds form between molecules, but they can also form within a molecule. In biology, intramolecular hydrogen bonding help proteins and nucleic acids maintain specific shapes.

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There exist 3 degenerate 3p orbitals. No matter for 2p, 3p, or 4p, the answer is always 3 because there only exist 3 p-orbitals at each energy level. And each of the p orbital has the same energy, which means they are degenerate. The degeneracy of d orbitals would be 5 and degeneracy of f orbitals w...

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When electrons start filling in the orbitals, they fill 4s first and then fill 3d because 4s has lower energy state than 3d at first. But once 4s is filled, its energy became higher than 3d. When losing electrons, electrons in higher energy levels are given out first since they are less stable.So el...

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According to my TA, degeneracy simply means 'same energy'. For example, the degeneracy of p orbitals is 3.

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The answer is E=hv. This equation is actually one main experiment result of the photoelectric experiment.

Xiangkun Shi 3E

It is the magnetic quantum number which tells you the orientation of the orbital. It can take the value from -l to l.

Xiangkun Shi 3E

Yes, by writing out the electron configuration you will be able to know the number of valence electrons, which is the key in determining what bonds are present.

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The 7 values from 0-6 are all possible L values. Quantum numbers can be larger than 4.

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You can think of it this way. The energy of each photon is 4.7 x 10^-19J. If we multiply this energy by number of photons, we will get the total energy. Since now we want to get the number of photons, we do it backwards by dividing the total energy with energy per photon.

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The energy produced by each photon is given by the equation E=hv, and we also know v=c/λ, so we get E=hc/λ. Then you just multiply E by the number of photons to get the total energy produced by the radiation in one second.

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There is something called the Hill system, which states carbon atoms are listed first, hydrogen atoms next. All the other elements then follow hydrogen and are listed in alphabetical order. I think this rule only applies to molecular compounds. In your example, Cl should be before N because C is bef...

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Your answer could just be an issue of not using enough sig figs throughout the problem, but I'll walk you through the steps I did to get 8.8 nm regardless. I used the equation: KE(of electron) = energy(of photon) - threshold energy. I first solved for the KE of the electron by converting the veloci...

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The velocity of an electron that is emitted from a metallic surface by a photon is 3.6*10^3 km/s. (a) What is the wavelength of the ejected electron? (b) No electrons are emitted from the surface of the metal until the frequency of the radiation reaches 2.50*10^16 Hz. How much energy is required to ...

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I agree that the net moles of gas produced should be moles of gaseous products minus moles of gaseous reactants

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I got the same answers as you :)

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Can you tell me the molar mass of each of the three compound you get? I have tried two periodic tables for now and I kept getting 4.57*10^-2 :(

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On the textbook the answer to G21 part (a) is 4.58*10^-2 M. I did it multiple times and no matter how many significant figures I kept during calculation, I could only get 4.57*10^-2 M. I know the difference is very little, but this bothers me a lot... Can anyone try to do this question and see if yo...

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