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Solids and liquids don't appear in the K expression because the atoms in solids and liquids are so close together that they don't have much room to squeeze any closer together. It would take a super huge immense amount of force to push these atoms any closer together and cause a change in volume. So...

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I know that so far in lectures we have used this formula to convert between partial pressure and concentration. Other than that I don't think we've been given more reasons to use the formula.

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When a reaction is at equilibrium, I think it means that the rate at which products and reactants are being formed is constant rather than equal. Basically meaning that if the forward and reverse reactions are both happening, it doesn't change the amount of products and reactants to cause a change i...

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The only difference between the two is that Q is a term used when it hasn't reached equilibrium yet. Since they're solved the same way, Q and K are just different terms you use depending on the situation.

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I know that when writing K and Q expressions you don't include molecules in solid and liquid state. But what about aqueous?

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As a follow up question, what are the general rules for determining the strengths of bases? For acids, it's through bond length and electronegativity, but I don't think Lavelle explicitly mentioned the criteria for bases. Thanks! I had the same question and did a little bit of research online and f...

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When naming [Fe(CN)6] 4- , why is the name in the answer key hexacyanoferrate (II) ion? Specifically as opposed to what I thought it would be: hexacyanidoferrate (II) ion.

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I just really don't understand the book explaining what a chelate is. Anyone here that can explain it better or just in different words?

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In the molecule Ferrocene (and likewise "sandwich compounds") is there a bond between connecting the central atom, Fe, with another atom? In the diagram in the book I can't really see any bonds coming off it so I don't know how the planar ligands are being held together.

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The book says that in some cases the order of ligands in the name is not the same as the order in the formula. How would we know if that's the case?

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When writing the formula in the steps to name a compound, how do you know what to put in brackets and include in the coordination sphere?

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I understand what a substitution reaction is (where one Lewis base takes the place of another) but how and why would this occur if there's already a Lewis base connected?

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Molecular geometry is how the lone pair(s) and bond pair(s) are arranged around the central atom and the shape is the molecular structure that doesn't include the lone pair(s) on the central atom.

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Nonpolar means that the dipole moments cancel out. In the case of CO2, because the oxygens (one each side) have the same strength of "pull" and effectively cancel each other out. Think of if as if there were two of the same person pulling at each side in tug of war. The rope in that game w...

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In the hydromium ion, there is one lone pair on the oxygen and three bonds (one for each H). You misinterpreted the shape as T-shaped. T-shaped would be more if there were two lone pairs on the oxygen instead of one. Instead the shape is trigonal pyramidal. It looks like one lone pair on top repelli...

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In the case of AX2E3, there are 3 lone pairs and with the strongest repulsion being lone pair-lone pair, these lone pairs are spaced out on the same plane as far away from each other as possible being at about 120 degrees away from each other. Then adding in the two bonds to the central atom, the pu...

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Each bond, whether single or multiple, just acts together as a single unit of high electron concentration repelling other bonds or lone pairs. Because of this, in our VSEPR model we treat all the types of bonds the same in counting regions of electron concentration.

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How I think it works are larger atoms and molecules have stronger attractive interactions because valence electrons are farther from the nuclei so they are less tightly held to the nucleus and can form dipoles with more ease.

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I know Lavelle said something in class about this but I wasn't fast enough to write it down. So in terms of the Interaction potential energy equation that he gave us (the one that has the divided by r^6), why is the potential energy always negative?

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In the book (for reference on page 96) they gave two ways that a dipole is represented. They said that in the original convention the dipole was represented by an arrow pointing to the negative dipole charge. However they said more modernly the arrow points to the positive charge. Which convention d...

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To my understanding, dissolving in water has to do with the positive part of water molecules attracting the more negative parts of a molecule and the negative part of water molecules attracting the positive parts of the same molecule. If you have a higher difference in electronegativity (therefore h...

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When we're asked to draw a Lewis Structure on the Midterm tomorrow, do we have to draw all of the resonance structures for full credit or can we just draw the one? ie for CO32- should we draw three Lewis structures with each having a double bond on a different O attached to the C or should we just h...

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This problem was in the Dino Nuggets Review particularly problem 10c) Which has a higher electron affinity, Chlorine (Cl) or Neon (Ne)? The answer was Cl although this the trend for electron affinity on the periodic table I thought was that electron affinity increased going to the right of the perio...

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does 3d have higher energy than 4s? can someone explain why/why not? Thanks! The 4s level is lower in energy when there are no electrons in the 3d level (hence why the 4s level is filled first), but once that 3d level gains an electron, it becomes the lower level and is therefore put first in the e...

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The 4s is only lower in energy when there are no electrons in the 3d level. However as soon as the 3d level gains an electron, the 4s ends up higher in energy. I think its a pretty complex reason exactly why when we add an electron into 3d that the energy levels fluctuate (I think the book said from...

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I can give you an example of the Schrodinger equation that we did in a review session today. Ex. Beta-carotene is a conjugated polyene with delocalized electrons. This system can be treated as a particule in a box. If H= (h/8Π^2m)((d^2)/dx^2) write the schrodinger equation for this system. We used t...

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Well the rules for electron configurations are Aufbau's Principle, Pauli-exclusion principle, and Hund's Rule. Aufbau says that we have to build our energy levels from the bottom level. Pauli says that there cannot be more than 2 electrons per orbital and that if there are two they must be spin pair...

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We know that these are ions that have had two electrons taken away because their charge is 2+. So we can add those ions back to the electron configuration, but we have to keep in mind that the two electrons were likely taken from the 4s subshell since 4s has to be filled before we start adding to th...

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During the "Dino Nuggets" review session on Friday, we went over the problem 12b) Draw the lowest energy Lewis structure for ClO4- We started by giving Cl (the central atom in this case) a bond for each oxygen it was connected to, but then to lower the formal charge of the structure, start...

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The goal is to limit the formal charge overall for the molecule to find out which atom arrangement suits the molecule best.

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For 2B.3 part d, can someone explain how the central atom Br of BrF3 has three bonds as well as 2 pairs of lone electrons? (seemingly like 10 electrons) As well as why one of the F atoms only has one bond and 2 pairs of alone electrons? (seemingly like 6 electrons) I don't know if I'm reading it wro...

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Yes, exactly. The more electrons added to the outer shell the more electrons far away from the nucleus and the atomic radii increases.

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Yes, exactly. The more electrons added to the outer shell the more electrons far away from the nucleus and the atomic radii increases.

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The ionization energy is the energy it takes to remove an electron from an atom. Ionization energies are paired with atomic radius. Since atomic radius increases from left to right on the periodic table so does ionization energy. Na is to the left of Mg so this would mean that Na has the smaller ato...

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How do we know that bromine gets 10 valence electrons? Bromine actually only has 7 valence electrons. An easy way to tell this is because Bromine is one column to the left of the noble gases that all have a complete set of 8 electrons on their outer shell. Sharing with the three Fluorine atoms lets ...

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Black body radiation is what is emitted at different wavelengths by an object heated for a series of temperatures that does not prefer one wavelength over another in terms of absorption. The only time we really mentioned black body in lecture was to say that the description of light as photons expla...

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You use Wien's law when you need to find temperature given a maximum wavelength of radiation or when you need to find a maximum wavelength when given the temperature. If they mention max wavelength of anything and want you to find the temperature that's when you use Wien's law, and I don't think you...

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A diffraction pattern comes from when the highs and lows of waves hit the highs and lows of other waves going a different direction. Diffraction patterns are important to what we're studying because they help prove that electromagnetic radiation is wavelike. Its modeled in the double slit experiment...

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I like to think of Lavelle's example of a baseball going through a stream of photons vs an electron. A baseball is large and we can see the definite trajectory that it is going. Photons aren't going to alter this trajectory in any way because their size just doesn't even begin to compare to a baseba...

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If I remember correctly, when we did that equation and calculated the velocity based on if the electrons could be in the nucleus we found that it said the velocity of electrons would be faster than the speed of light because they were faster than 3×10^8 ms-¹. However that's simply not possible and e...

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We briefly mentioned it as one of the three fundamental equations from this section. But it is in the book and we will probably end up going over it. For future reference it is Δp * Δx ≥ (1/2)ћ Δp is uncertainty in momentum Δx is uncertainty in position ћ (pronounced "h bar") means h/2(pi)...

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It is possible that you can be given the amount of a product and asked to find the amount of each of the reactants needed to make that much product. If you're given the product in grams you can convert them to moles and use the molar ratio between that given product and the reactant they're asking y...

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Since E = hv, we know that energy is directly proportional to frequency. We also know that λ x v = c (with λ being wavelength). If we rearrange the equation we get v = c/λ. By combining that with our energy equation we get E = h * (c/λ) = (hc/λ) So from this we see that Energy is indirectly proporti...

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The Balmer series contains the visible part of the light spectrum, whereas the Lyman series is in the ultraviolet range on the light spectrum.

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The intensity is the square of the amplitude. So it is determined by the height of the wave. The frequency has to do with the wavelength and the number of oscillations. A long wavelength means fewer oscillations and low frequency.

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If someone could be kind enough to explain the observations from the photoelectric effect in as close to layman's terms it can get, it would be really great. Thank you!

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The book says "White light is a mixture of all wavelengths of visible light". So does this mean that on the visible light spectrum it has no specific place? Or that it doesn't have a specific frequency or wavelength? I wonder if there's any way to define it like that or get clarification o...

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When talking about the speed of light the unit used is m/s^-1. If the s stands for per second, why is there an exponent of -1?

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Well the atomic spectra is a collection of the specific and various wavelengths of light emitted by atoms. Often observed through spectroscopy.

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I know that the unit of frequency when looking at the oscillation of an electromagnetic wave is called a hertz. However, is there a unit for when looking at the amplitude/height of the wave?

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