Chemistry Q1: 6.3 ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: Location of Electrons (Due October 5)

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Due: Friday, 5 October 2018, 6:00 PM

ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: Location of Electrons (10 points)

This Week's Science Blog Topic: For this week's blog entry watch the video below and then answer the questions that follow.

How do we know what atoms look like?

Past a certain distance from the nucleus, the probability of finding an electron starts to decrease more or less exponentially. How would you represent this on a graph? Draw a quick sketch and label the axes. Take a picture of your sketch and insert it into your blog post.

How would you account for the "past a certain distance from the nucleus"part of the question in your sketch?

Blog Guidelines:

Each blog post should be at least one paragraph (3-5 sentences minimum).

Use complete sentences, proper grammar and punctuation.

All posts/comments must be respectful. Vulgarity or rudeness will result in school disciplinary action.

Instructions:

1. Find the Blog Menu block. Click Add an entry about this course.

You can enter a title for your post and then write your post. You can insert images or links to help explain your ideas. When you have finished, click Save Changes.

2. Get link to your course blog

After you save your post, highlight and copy (cntl +c) the url at the top of the blog. You can also get the link by going to the Blog Menu block and clicking View my entries for this course

screenshot of blog page

2. To submit in Moodle, Click Add Submission.

3. Paste your blog URL into the submission box.

4. Click Save Changes to submit your assignment.

Are you interested in knowing how to read and comment on other students' science blog posts? Just go to the Blog Menu and choose View all entries for this course. You can add comments and also read comments others have left on your posts.

After you have completed this assignment, it will be marked as complete with a checkmark after it has been graded by the instructor.