Online textbook designed for advanced high school students and college freshman-level courses.
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table is one of several online chemistry textbooks and learning materials provided by Stephen Lower of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby/ Vancouver Canada.
Lesson Titles of Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table Online Chemistry Textbook
- 1 – Quanta: a new view of the world
- The limits of classical physics
- The quantum revolution
- Radiation is quantized
- The photoelectric effect
- Matter and energy united
- 2 – Light, particles and waves
- The language of light
- Light a particle: the photon
- Light as electromagnetic radiation
- Spectra: interaction of light with matter
- Wavelength of a particle
- The uncertainty principle
- 3 – The Bohr atom
- The atom before Bohr
- Bohr’s orbital model
- Spectrum of a guitar string
- Standing waves in the hydrogen atom
- The hydrogen spectrum explained
- Emission and absorption spectrum; Fraunhofer lines
- 4 – The quantum atom
- The wave function and its physical meaning
- Why doesn’t the electron fall into the nucleus?
- Quantum numbers of electrons in atoms
- Electron spin and the Pauli exclusion principle
- 5 – Atomic electron configurations
- Atoms that have only one electron
- Effects of electron-electron repulsion
- The Aufbau rules
- The periodic table
- 6 – Periodic properties of the elements
- How the periodic table is organized
- The shell model of the atom
- Effective nuclear charge
- Sizes of atoms and ions
- Ionization energies
- Electron affinities
- Electronegativity
- References and periodic table links
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Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
