Class starts 5 minutes late! Please enter from the rear doors, and be ready for lecture at 1:30.
Atomic properties and Introduction to bonding
1. Read chapter 7 (319-330)
2. Ionization Energies
3. OWLs due Thursday and Sunday
Oct 28
EXAM 2: Friday, Nov 6 in class. Bring pencils and a calculator. The exam will cover all material not on the first exam, up through Nov 4.
Electron configurations of ions, Magnetic properties
1. Read chapter 7 (313-318)
2. OWLs due Thursday
Oct 26
It worked!
Z* (Z effective) is an important predictor for periodic trends as you move from left to right across a period. Think about the different reactitivities of Na and Cl – one has a small Z*, and wants to give away an electron; the other has a large Z*, and wants to gain another electron.
Electron spin, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Electronic configurations af atoms
1. Read chapter 6 (291-295) and chapter 7 (305-314)
2. OWLs due Sunday
Major technical difficulties today. We covered the lecture material with a combination of chalk, document camera, and one slide of PPT…