CHEM 1007-Spring2025 Take home Quiz 6
Chapter 6
Question 1: An FM radio station broadcasts electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of 100.6 MHz. The wavelength of this radiation is __ m.
Question 2: Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 525 nm appears as green light to the human eye. The frequency of this light is __ .
Question 3: The energy of a photon of light is __proportional to its frequency and __proportional to its wavelength.
- A) inversely, inversely
- B) directly, directly
- C) directly, inversely
- D) inversely, directly
Question 4: Of the following, __ radiation has the longest wavelength.
- A) X-ray
- B) radio
- C) microwave
- D) ultraviolet
- E) -ray
Question 5: The wavelength of a photon of energy 5.25 × 10^{-19} J is __m.
Question 6: The energy of one mole of photons that have a wavelength of 9.0 m is __J.
Question 7: The n =3 to n = 5 transition in the Bohr hydrogen atom corresponds to the of a photon with a wavelength of nm.
- A) emission, 1282
- B) absorption, 657
- C) absorption, 1380
- D) emission, 657
- E) absorption, 1282
Question 8: Which of the following is an isoelectronic series?
- A) B5 -, Si4 -, As3 -, Te2 -
- B) O2 -, F-, Ne, Na+
- C) F-, Cl-, Br-, I-
- D) S, Cl, Ar, K
- E) Si2 -, P2 -, S2 -, Cl2 -
Question 9: All of the orbitals in a given subshell have the same value(s) of the quantum number(s).
- A) principal (n)
- B) angular momentum (l)
- C) magnetic (ml)
- D) A and B
- E) B and C
Question 10: An electron cannot have the quantum numbers n = , l = , ml = .
- A) 2, 0, 0, -½
- B) 2, 1, -1, ½
- C) 3, 1, -1, ½
- D) 1, 1, 1, -½
- E) 3, 2, 1, -½
Question 11: Which one of the following is an incorrect subshell notation?
- A) 4f
- B) 3p
- C) 3s
- D) 2p
- E) 3f
Question 12: How many electrons can be "stored" in a completely filled 4f sublevel?
- A) 7
- B) 10
- C) 14
- D) 28
- E) 6
Question 13: Which set of the quantum numbers (n, l, ml, ms) corresponds to an electron in a 3d orbital?
- A) 3, 2, 2, -½
- B) 3, 3, 2, ½
- C) 3, 2, 3, ½
- D) 2, 1, 0, -½
Question 14: The complete electron configuration of vanadium is .
- A) 1s22s22p103s23p7
- B) 1s22s22p63s23p63d34s2
- C) 1s42s42p63s43p5
- D) 1s42s42p103s43p1
- E) 1s42s42p83s43p3
Question 15: Of the following transitions in the Bohr hydrogen atom, the transition results in the emission of the lowest-energy photon.
- A) n = 1 → n = 6
- B) n = 6 → n = 1
- C) n = 6 → n = 3
- D) n = 3 → n = 6
- E) n = 1 → n = 4
Question 16: The shorthand (condensed) electron configuration for a boron atom is .
- A) 1s22s22p6
- B) [Ne]2s22p1
- C) 1s22s22p1
- D) [H]2s22p1
- E) [He]2s22p1
Question 17: Which of the following cations will have the electronic configuration 1s22s22p63s23p6?
- A) Co2+
- B) Ca2+
- C) Sc+
- D) Na+
- D) Cl+
Question 18: Which electron configuration represents a violation of the Pauli exclusion principle?
Question 19: What is the electron configuration for aluminum?
- A) 1s 2 2s 2 2p 3 3s 3
- B) 1s 2 2s 2 2p 3 3s 3
- C) 1s 2 2s 2 2p 3 3s 3
- D) 1s 2 2s 2 2p 3 3s 3
- E) 1s 2 2s 2 2p 3 3s 3
Question 20: The frequency of electromagnetic radiation required to promote an electron from n = 2 to n = 4 in a Bohr hydrogen atom is Hz.
- A) 4.13 × 10^{-19}
- B) 6.17 × 10^{14}
- C) 5.46 × 10^{-19}
- D) 8.22 × 10^{14}
- E) 4.13 × 10^{19}
Question 21: When the electron in a hydrogen atom moves from n = 6 to n = 1, light with a wavelength of nm is emitted.
- A) 487
- B) 411
- C) 434
- D) 93.8
- E) 657
Question 22: Which is the correct electron configuration for an oxide ion?
- A) 1s22s22p3
- B) 1s22s22p1
- C) 1s22s22p6
- D) 1s22s23s2
- E) 1s22s22p2
Chapter 8
Question 23: All of the following are ionic compounds except __.
- A) K2O
- B) Na2SO4
- C) Li3N
- D) NaCl
- E) CO2
Question 24: In which of the molecules below is the carbon-carbon distance the shortest?
- A) H2C CH2
- B) H-C≡C-H
- C) H3C—CH3
- D) H2C C CH2
- E) H3C—CH2—CH3
Question 25: Which of the following has the bonds correctly arranged in order of increasing polarity?
- A) Be—F, Mg—F, N—F, O—F
- B) O—F, N—F, Be—F, Mg—F
- C) O—F, Be—F, Mg—F, N—F
- D) N—F, Be—F, Mg—F, O—F
- E) Mg—F, Be—F, N—F, O—F
Question 26: Which of the following structure is the best Lewis structure for the thiocyanate ion (NCS-):
- (i)
- (ii)
- (iii)
- A) Structure (i)
- B) Structure (ii)
- C) Structure (iii)
- D) All of the above are of equal contribution toward the actual structure of the NCS- ion.
- E) None of the above
Question 27: Which of the following does not have eight valence electrons?
- A) Cl-
- B) Xe
- C) Ti+4
- D) Rb+
- E) Sr+
Question 28: The central atom in does not violate the octet rule.
- A) SF4
- B) KrF2
- C) CF4
- D) XeF4
- E) ICl4-
Question 29: The ion ICl4- has valence electrons.
- A) 34
- B) 35
- C) 36
- D) 28
- E) 8
Question 30: There are paired and unpaired electrons in the Lewis symbol for a sulfur atom.
- A) 4, 2
- B) 2, 4
- C) 2, 3
- D) 4, 4
- E) 2, 2