Orbital Diagrams Name Ke Chem Worksheet 5-5 ‘An orbital diagram uses boxes with arrows fo represent the electrons in an atom, Each box in an orbital diagram represents an orbital. Orbitals have a capacity of two electrons. Arrows are drawn inside the boxes to represent electrons. Two electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spin so the arrows are drawn pointing in opposite directions. ‘The following is an orbital diagram for selenium, 2 te Blecrons fill ihe lowest ‘wo electrons inthe same orbital Back orbital half fled ‘euilable energy level firs ust have opposite spi. before being compleel filed. In writing an orbital diagram the first step is to determine the Trecipisses aise a HII EG umber of electrons. Normally this is the same as the number of protons, which is known as the atomic number. Next the boxes are ss sublevel: o 1 orbital ‘drawn for the orbitals. Arrows are drawn in the boxes starting from | psublevel: I] 3 orbitals the lowest energy sublevel and working up. This is known as the dswblevel CQO — Sotbitals Aufbau rule. The Pauli exclusion prineiple requires that electrons in the same orbital have opposite spin, Htund’s rule states that Feublevel: CICIOI 7 orbitals ‘orbitals in a given sublevel are half-filled before they are completely filled. (fl % ‘This violates Husd’s rule. One electron ‘should be distributed to each of he 3p cexbitals before doubly filing ay. Write the name and symbol for the elements with the following orbital diagrams. 1. IRIE fe I fe IRENE ‘Co/Caican NiNickel” 2 5. Oke) Galea 00 Ye/Xeno” 3. a 6. [Ral MAO “seule Po, | Protech AY, There is an error wi esd of the following orbital diagrams. Explain the error. a ase a 8. (yi I IEE rf “anfiilecl (Auton) Rot opmesite. spins (aret) Write orbital diagrams for the following. You may abbreviate using a rere gas. 9. hydrogen 15. carbon 10. boron 16. cobalt u. sodium 17. platinum 12. krypton 18. plutonium 13. chromium 19. oxygen 14. phosphorus 20. potassium Chemistry WS5-5OrbitalDiagransIs ars 2) [He fw ee ® [wd Ey z 4 4p cw] i lay) ll @ tw] bh OE ; eae ('s) [re] i bh] (9) fC BREE aN bs Hf ee SA (04 te) ERs hPL GRbbE@® ce a REO 6 hh In {| [He] ia] = BAF ©) rad