General Chemistry · Module 3 · Light, electrons and orbitals

Light and Electrons Lab

Fire photons at a hydrogen atom, knock electrons out of metals, build electron configurations box by box, drill the calculations with worked solutions, and see light at work in everyday life and health care. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Photon and Atom simulator

Electron Nucleus (one proton) Energy level Spectrometer strips (UV, visible, IR)

Pick a wavelength and fire photons at the atom. A photon is absorbed only when its energy exactly matches a jump between levels; the electron then falls back down, giving off photons that land on the spectrometer. Speeds and sizes are not to scale.