1. What is the value of e/m for the particles in cathode rays?

2. What are isotones?

3. What are the possible values of m for an electron in 3d sub-shell?
4. What is the shape of 3s orbital? How many nodes are there in it.
5. What are degenerate orbitals?
6. What is the number of d electrons in

ion?
7. Which of the following orbitals are not possible? 3f, 4p, 2d, 7p.
8. Which are the possible values of n, l and m for 3p orbital?
9. Compare the mass and charge of the three fundamental sub-atomic particles.
10. From what observations do you derive the following inferences?
(i) The most of the space inside the atom is empty.
(ii) The volume of the nucleus is very small.
(iii) Anode rays consist of positively charged particles.
11. Why was Thomsons model of atom discarded and replaced by Rutherfords model? Why
is Rutherfords model also called the nuclear model of atom?
12. The energy of a photon is 3.98

J. What is its wavelength in nm?

13. The threshold frequency

for a metal is 7.0

Calculate the kinetic energy of

an electron emitted when radiation of frequency v = 1.0

hits the metal.

14. Give various postulates of Bohrs atomic model. How does it explain emission spectrum
of hydrogen?
15. Why are there so many lines in hydrogen spectrum although there is only one electron in
its atom?
16. What is the wavelength of a photon (in nm) emitted during a transition from the

state to the

state in the hydrogen atom?

17. Calculate the energy associated with the first orbit of

. What is the radius of this

orbit?
18. Calculate the wavelength of the de-Broglie wave associated with an electron having
kinetic energy 3.0

J. Mass of an electron = 9.1

kg.
19. State and explain Heisenbergs uncertainty principle.
20. A Ping-Pong ball weighing 2.5 g has a speed of 20 m/s If the speed can be measured
within accuracy of 1%, calculate the uncertainty in the position.
21. What are quantum numbers?
22. From the following sets of quantum numbers, state which are possible. Explain why the
other are not permitted.
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

23. (a) Using the s, p, d notation, designate the orbitals with the following quantum
numbers.
(i) (ii)
(iii) (iv)
(b) Discuss the shape of an orbital with
24. Draw the shapes of s and p orbitals.
25. (i) Can an electron have quantum numbers
(ii) Write the set of quantum numbers for the highest energy electron

Na.
26. Assign sets of quantum numbers for all the electrons in Be (Z = 4).
27. State Paulis exclusion principle. How does it put a limit on the accommodation of
electrons in an orbital? Explain.
28. What is the maximum number of electrons in
(i) A principal shell (ii) S, p, d sub-shells (iii) An orbital
29. (a) Write short notes on:
(i) Aufbau principle (ii) Paulis principle (iii) Magnetic quantum number.
.(b) State Hands rule of maximum multiplicity. How is it used in electronic distribution in
nitrogen atom (Z = 7)?