Before Class Assignment

• read sections 7.1 to 7.6

• electromagnetic radiation
• nature of atoms

Learning Objectives

• understand the nature of electromagnetic radiation and the concept of wave-particle duality
• understand the (simplified) quantum model of the atom
  

• Chapter 7: 19, 21, 39, 47, 53, 67, 69
  

Before Class Assignment

• read section 7.7 to 7.11
  

• orbital shapes
• multi-electron atoms

Learning Objectives

• understand the way electrons arrange themselves in the atom (quantum numbers, Pauli Principle, Hund's Rule)
• understand the shapes of orbitals and how they describe electron probabilities
• learn the order of orbital energies (Aufbau Principle)
• note: the following diagram will feature in this class, which does not appear in your text

• Chapter 7: 29, 35, 73, 85, 87, 129
  

Before Class Assignment

• read sections 7.12 to 7.13

• the periodic table (revisited)
• note: a scattering of material from Chapter 20 will also be presented in this class

Learning Objectives

• understand how atomic properties systematically vary across periods (rows)
• learn some of the systematic group (column) properties of the Main Group elements (columns 1-2 and 13-18 on the periodic table)
  

• Chapter 7: 105, 107, 119, 151
• Chapter 20: 13, 39
  

Before Class Assignment

• read sections 19.1-19.3 

• nuclear transformations

Learning Objectives

• learn the different ways that radioactive nuclei can decay
• learn how to balance nuclear reactions
  

• Chapter 19: 11, 15, 23, 55
  

Before Class Assignment

• read sections 19.4-19.7 

• kinetics of nuclear decay
• energy of nuclear transformations

Learning Objectives

• learn how to determine the rate of decay of unstable nuclei
• understand the energy-matter interconversion relationship (E = mc²)
  

• Chapter 19: 25, 39, 41, 49, 65, 67