SLE133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unified Atomic Mass Unit
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Q2AtomsandthePeriodicTable[1+2+2+3+2=10marks]
a)Whatisthemaximumnumberofelectronsthatcanfitintothe5fsubshell?
[1mark]
b)BasedontheelectronconfigurationS:1s22s22p63s23p4
i)Howmanyvalenceelectronsarethere?
[1mark]
ii)Drawtheelectrondotsymbolforsulfur.
[1mark]
c)Anaturallyoccurringelementconsistsoftwoisotopes:
isotope1 68.9256u60.108%
isotope2 70.9247u39.892%
Whatistheaverageatomicmassofthisnaturallyoccurringelement
Hint:Themarksinthisquestionareallocatedforthecalculationmethod.
Notethat1unifiedatomicmassunit(u)isthesameas1atomicmassunit(amu).
[2marks]