Scientific Law
Summarizes what happens
Theory
explains why it happens
100 cm=___m
1m
1kg=___g
1000
1m=____mm
1000
JJ Thomas used Cathode rays to discover
Electrons
Rutherfords gold foil experiment led to the discovery of
nucleus, atom is mostly empty space
Aufbau
Electrons fill lower energy level orbitals before filling higher ones
Pauli Exclusion
Two electrons in the same orbital must spin in opposite directions
Hund
when electrons occupy oribitals of equal energy, one electron enters each orbital singly before pairing up