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    Electron Configuration Activity Instructions

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    The document provides an analogy to help understand how electrons fill orbitals in an atom. It compares filling electron orbitals to filling rooms in an apartment building, with the floors representing different energy levels. The rules for filling the apartment building mimic the rules for filling electron orbitals, known as the Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, and Pauli exclusion principle. Rooms on lower floors and s orbitals must be filled first. All p orbitals must have a single tenant before doubling up, just as electrons don't pair until each orbital has one. Only opposite-gender tenants can occupy the same room, matching that electrons must have opposite spin.

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    Electron Configuration Activity Instructions

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    The document provides an analogy to help understand how electrons fill orbitals in an atom. It compares filling electron orbitals to filling rooms in an apartment building, with the floors representing different energy levels. The rules for filling the apartment building mimic the rules for filling electron orbitals, known as the Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, and Pauli exclusion principle. Rooms on lower floors and s orbitals must be filled first. All p orbitals must have a single tenant before doubling up, just as electrons don't pair until each orbital has one. Only opposite-gender tenants can occupy the same room, matching that electrons must have opposite spin.

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    The document provides an analogy to help understand how electrons fill orbitals in an atom. It compares filling electron orbitals to filling rooms in an apartment building, with the floors representing different energy levels. The rules for filling the apartment building mimic the rules for filling electron orbitals, known as the Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, and Pauli exclusion principle. Rooms on lower floors and s orbitals must be filled first. All p orbitals must have a single tenant before doubling up, just as electrons don't pair until each orbital has one. Only opposite-gender tenants can occupy the same room, matching that electrons must have opposite spin.

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    Electron Configuration Activity Instructions

    Uploaded by

    Eufrone Yvan Limjoco
    The document provides an analogy to help understand how electrons fill orbitals in an atom. It compares filling electron orbitals to filling rooms in an apartment building, with the floors representing different energy levels. The rules for filling the apartment building mimic the rules for filling electron orbitals, known as the Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, and Pauli exclusion principle. Rooms on lower floors and s orbitals must be filled first. All p orbitals must have a single tenant before doubling up, just as electrons don't pair until each orbital has one. Only opposite-gender tenants can occupy the same room, matching that electrons must have opposite spin.

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    Apartment House Analogy


    One way to approach the very abstract task of filling electron orbitals is to use an analogy to make it a
    bit more concrete. Imagine you are the landlord of a very strange apartment building. Your job is to fill
    the apartments in the building in the most efficient way possible. You are required by the owner of the
    building to fill the rooms in a certain way. The rules you have to follow are as strange as the building
    because quantum mechanics is not like anything you might have expected. The rules are summarized in
    the table below.
    In the building the different floors are like the different energy levels (or shells) in an atom. The
    energy levels are numbered starting from one, just like the floors in an apartment house. Each room
    corresponds to one orbital. The rooms have a capacity of two electrons (two people) each. In each room
    only a man and a woman may be paired together. In the strange world of quantum mechanics there are
    no same-gender room mates.

    Apartment House Rules Electron Rules


    From the Bottom Up: Rooms must be filled from the ground floor Aufbau Principle: the electrons fill the lowest energy
    up. Fill the one room on the first floor before starting to put new level and orbitals first.
    tenants on the second floor. The s room must be filled before you
    can start filling the p rooms

    Singles First: All p orbital rooms must be occupied by a single Hund’s Rule: The electrons do not pair together until
    tenant before you can double up. each orbital has one electron.

    Opposite Genders: Rooms can only be occupied by tenants of the Pauli Exclusion Principle: Electrons must have an
    opposite gender. No same gender tenants in the same room opposite spin in order to occupy the same orbital.
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    4th Energy S Orbital Px Orbital Py Orbital Pz
    Level Orbital

    3rd S Orbital Px Orbital Py Orbital Pz Orbital


    Energy
    Level

    2nd S Orbital Px Orbital Py Orbital Pz Orbital


    Energy
    Level

    1st Energy S Orbital


    Level

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