Ch 6: Electronic Structure and Periodic Properties of the Elements

1. Electromagnetic radiation (light)
   1. Light as a wave
      1. Basic parameters
      2. Interference patterns
      3. Traveling vs. standing waves
      4. Traveling vs. standing waves Video 1
      5. Traveling vs. standing waves Video 2
   2. Blackbody radiation and the ultrviolet catastrophe
   3. The photoelectric effect
   4. Wave-particle duality
   5. Double-slit experiment video
   6. Flame test video
   7. Connections to atoms: line spectra
2. The Bohr model of the atom (1913)
   1. Niels Bohr
   2. Prior to the Bohr model
   3. Bohr model details
3. Additional backgroud
   1. de Broglie Wavelengths
   2. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
4. The quantum mechanical model of the H atom
   1. Fundamental issues
   2. Quantum numbers
   3. Orbital examples
   4. Online orbital simulator
5. Multi-electron atoms
   1. Orbital energies
   2. Complete orbital energy diagram
   3. Pauli exclusion principle
   4. Aufbau principle
   5. Examples (atoms and ions)
6. Periodicity (trends in the periodic table of elements)
   1. Periodic natue of electron configurations
      1. Standard periodic table configurations
      2. Table in 32-column format
   2. Covalent radius
   3. Ionic radius
   4. Ionization energy
   5. Electron affinity