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How to Use Graphs to Determine Atomic Trends — Transcript

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  1. 0:00All right, let's talk about how you
  2. 0:01could use a graph such as this to
  3. 0:03determine a periodic trend. So, for this
  4. 0:06one, you need to talk about what is the
  5. 0:08trend across a period and what is trend
  6. 0:10across a group. Remember, a period is
  7. 0:13side-to-side across the periodic table,
  8. 0:15so a period is this. A group would be up
  9. 0:17and down. So, there's a group, there's
  10. 0:19another group, there's another group,
  11. 0:20there's another group, there's another
  12. 0:22group, etc. So, uh let's start with
  13. 0:25determining the trend across It doesn't
  14. 0:28matter which one you do first. Maybe
  15. 0:31across a group. Remember, a group is up
  16. 0:33and down. So, if I want to look in a
  17. 0:34group, I'm going to check lithium.
  18. 0:36And looking at the periodic table, I see
  19. 0:38lithium is in the same group as sodium,
  20. 0:40potassium, rubidium, cesium. So, I see
  21. 0:43lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium,
  22. 0:45cesium. These are in the same group as
  23. 0:47lithium.
  24. 0:48So, let's see what the trend is. So, in
  25. 0:50this group, we see that this thing, and
  26. 0:52in this case it's atomic radius, but it
  27. 0:54could be anything, um this trait
  28. 0:57increases from lithium to sodium. Okay,
  29. 0:59notice that
  30. 1:01the y-axis tells you what you are
  31. 1:03looking at.
  32. 1:05The x-axis
  33. 1:07it says atomic number, but it says the
  34. 1:08same thing, atomic number here and
  35. 1:10atomic number
  36. 1:12here. So, all the graphs say atomic
  37. 1:14number on the y on the x-axis. It's the
  38. 1:16y-axis that tells you what it is you're
  39. 1:18looking at, electronegativity
  40. 1:20or ionization energy or atomic radius.
  41. 1:23So, in this case what we're looking at
  42. 1:24is
  43. 1:26atomic radius, the trait we're looking
  44. 1:28at increases
  45. 1:29because this is higher on the y-axis or
  46. 1:31sorry, this is not as high as this one.
  47. 1:34So, being that this is higher than this
  48. 1:35one on the y-axis, the trait is greater
  49. 1:37for this one than it is for this one.
  50. 1:38So, it is increasing
  51. 1:40in the direction of sodium.
  52. 1:44It's further increased in the direction
  53. 1:46of potassium. It's further increased in
  54. 1:48the direction of rubidium.
  55. 1:49So, from lithium to sodium this trait
  56. 1:51increased and it increased even further
  57. 1:53toward potassium, whatever. So, I look
  58. 1:55on the periodic table.
  59. 1:58We said it increased from lithium
  60. 2:00sodium. Well, if you're going from
  61. 2:02lithium to sodium, that's downward, and
  62. 2:04then from sodium to potassium, it's
  63. 2:05downwards. So, we're going to say this
  64. 2:07trait is increasing in the downward
  65. 2:09direction. So, I put an arrow like that.
  66. 2:12And then um
  67. 2:14for this one here,
  68. 2:18now that I've looked at it across the
  69. 2:19group, these are the same group as each
  70. 2:21other because they're in the same
  71. 2:22vertical column. Now I need to look at
  72. 2:24the trend across one of these periods.
  73. 2:27Remember, period is side to side.
  74. 2:29So, if I do lithium again, it doesn't
  75. 2:31matter. I could do any of these and get
  76. 2:32the same answer. But lithium, what's in
  77. 2:35the same period as lithium? So, I look
  78. 2:36across the beryllium,
  79. 2:38boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen,
  80. 2:40fluorine, neon.
  81. 2:42I see Oh, there's fluorine right there.
  82. 2:44Fluorine is in the same group as
  83. 2:45lithium.
  84. 2:47Sorry, I don't know why I said group.
  85. 2:48The same period as lithium.
  86. 2:50So, I want to see what's in the same
  87. 2:52period.
  88. 2:54And these are in the same period right
  89. 2:56here. So,
  90. 2:58fluorine is number nine, lithium is
  91. 2:59number three. So, this must be number
  92. 3:00four, number five, six, seven, eight,
  93. 3:02nine.
  94. 3:04So, these must all be in the same period
  95. 3:05as each other. And in which direction do
  96. 3:06they increase? Well, fluorine is down
  97. 3:09here, lithium's up here on the graph.
  98. 3:10So, since fluorine's lower on the y-axis
  99. 3:12than lithium is,
  100. 3:14the trait is increasing as I go from
  101. 3:16fluorine toward lithium
  102. 3:19along this
  103. 3:20period right here of these different
  104. 3:22atoms.
  105. 3:23So, I look on here.
  106. 3:27It's increasing as I go from fluorine to
  107. 3:29lithium. So, from fluorine to lithium is
  108. 3:32going this way from fluorine to lithium.
  109. 3:36So, the trend for
  110. 3:38atomic
  111. 3:39radius
  112. 3:42increases as you move
  113. 3:45downward
  114. 3:48and toward the left
  115. 3:51on the periodic table
  116. 3:53as shown right here. Again, you do not
  117. 3:55need to memorize this. You should be
  118. 3:57able to look at this graph and come up
  119. 3:58with this. So, for practice sake,
  120. 4:02I'm going to go through the other two on
  121. 4:03this graph, the ionization energy and
  122. 4:06the
  123. 4:07electronegativity. So I would say to
  124. 4:09you, I'm going to go through and present
  125. 4:11the answer right now. Pause this, figure
  126. 4:12out for yourself
  127. 4:14what the direction would be of the trend
  128. 4:17as in like downward or upward or left or
  129. 4:18right, and then figure it out for
  130. 4:20yourself and then replay the video to
  131. 4:22see what I come to and see if it's in
  132. 4:23agreement. So I'll assume you're pausing
  133. 4:26right now and I'll assume you're now
  134. 4:27rewinding I assume now you're watching
  135. 4:28now you finished solving it. So here we
  136. 4:31go. Let's see.
  137. 4:34What do we got here?
  138. 4:35Let's do I guess I did the up and down
  139. 4:37across the group first, so I'll do that
  140. 4:39again. These are in the same group as
  141. 4:41each other.
  142. 4:43And I see that ionization energy the or
  143. 4:46any trait this trait is greater for
  144. 4:48helium than it is for argon.
  145. 4:50So from argon toward neon toward helium
  146. 4:52it's increasing as I go from argon
  147. 4:54toward helium.
  148. 4:57And from argon toward helium is upward
  149. 5:01along the periodic table. So this trait
  150. 5:02is increasing as we go upward along the
  151. 5:04periodic table.
  152. 5:07Let's see.
  153. 5:09How about along a period? Let's see.
  154. 5:13Neon helium
  155. 5:15only hydrogen, so there's nothing in the
  156. 5:17same period as helium here. Neon
  157. 5:20yeah, all of these are in the same
  158. 5:21period as neon and there's nitrogen,
  159. 5:24there's beryllium, there's lithium. So
  160. 5:27these things are in the same period, so
  161. 5:28that's perfect. I can work with these.
  162. 5:30I could also use these and get the exact
  163. 5:32same answer.
  164. 5:34Let's see. So from
  165. 5:35this trait is increasing from lithium,
  166. 5:38it's more in beryllium, it's more in
  167. 5:39nitrogen, and it's most in neon.
  168. 5:42So this trait is increasing as I go from
  169. 5:43lithium toward neon. So from lithium
  170. 5:45toward neon is
  171. 5:47right
  172. 5:49on the periodic table like so.
  173. 5:53So from lithium toward neon by the way
  174. 5:55if I looked at this from sodium it's
  175. 5:56increasing toward argon.
  176. 5:59So I could say from sodium it's
  177. 6:00increasing as I go rightward toward
  178. 6:02argon. So looking at either period I
  179. 6:03would have gotten the answer. So that is
  180. 6:05why I'm going to say
  181. 6:07ionization energy increases as you move
  182. 6:09upward
  183. 6:12and toward the right.
  184. 6:16Ionization
  185. 6:19energy
  186. 6:21Not that you need to memorize that, but
  187. 6:22uh why not? It's good to have a label.
  188. 6:24And then after the next one
  189. 6:27do not Okay.
  190. 6:30Electronegativity or any trend that has
  191. 6:32a graph like this.
  192. 6:34So this stuff
  193. 6:36Let's see. Uh fluorine I see standing
  194. 6:39out pretty obviously fluorine. Okay,
  195. 6:41what's in the same group as fluorine?
  196. 6:42Uh
  197. 6:44chlorine is in the same group as
  198. 6:46fluorine.
  199. 6:47Bromine's in the same group. Iodine's
  200. 6:48the same group. Astatine is the same
  201. 6:50group.
  202. 6:52So we can work with those.
  203. 6:55So I see the trend is going generally
  204. 6:57like upward. Bromine is less than
  205. 7:00fluorine. So we'd say the trend's going
  206. 7:02upward in this direction as I go from
  207. 7:03astatine toward iodine, toward bromine,
  208. 7:05toward chlorine, toward fluorine. With
  209. 7:07fluorine having the most of this trait
  210. 7:08cuz it's highest on the y-axis
  211. 7:10and astatine having the least cuz it's
  212. 7:12lowest on the y-axis. So
  213. 7:15it's increasing as we go from astatine
  214. 7:17toward iodine, toward bromine, all the
  215. 7:19way toward fluorine. So it's increasing
  216. 7:21as I go this way.
  217. 7:24That's upward.
  218. 7:26Okay, so from astatine to iodine, to
  219. 7:27bromine, to fluorine, from bromine to
  220. 7:29fluorine, whatever, from this from here
  221. 7:31to here to here to here that's upward on
  222. 7:32the periodic table. Oops, you can't even
  223. 7:33see that. From here to here to here to
  224. 7:35here that's upward on the periodic
  225. 7:36table. So that's why I put this upward
  226. 7:38arrow here.
  227. 7:40Um the
  228. 7:44period trend I can pick any of these and
  229. 7:47get the exact same results. So I'll just
  230. 7:48do this one just to prevent no
  231. 7:49particularly good reason. Um
  232. 7:52lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon,
  233. 7:54nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine. Notice how
  234. 7:56they're all in the same period as each
  235. 7:57other. Lithium, beryllium, boron,
  236. 7:59carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine. So
  237. 8:03same period as each other. Lithium has
  238. 8:05has least cuz it's lowest on the y-axis.
  239. 8:07Fluorine has the most of this trend
  240. 8:08because it's highest on the y-axis.
  241. 8:11So it's increasing as they go from
  242. 8:12lithium toward fluorine.
  243. 8:14So it's increasing as you go from
  244. 8:15lithium toward fluorine. Well, from
  245. 8:17lithium toward fluorine, that is
  246. 8:20rightward on the periodic table, and
  247. 8:22that's the reason why I am going to put
  248. 8:24a rightward-facing arrow on here because
  249. 8:27the trend is increasing as I move toward
  250. 8:29the right. Now, of course, in this case,
  251. 8:31let's see, let's fill this in.
  252. 8:33Increases you move upward
  253. 8:36and toward the
  254. 8:38right.
  255. 8:41The trend is for
  256. 8:48which I guess is inside is the power to
  257. 8:49attract electrons.
  258. 8:54All right, there you go. So there's some
  259. 8:55pointers for how to read these graphs in
  260. 8:57order to figure out what the trend is.
  261. 8:59Um I would definitely say practice makes
  262. 9:01perfect, so rewatch this video, try
  263. 9:03again, resolve it again, and
  264. 9:05um that should pretty much cover the
  265. 9:08sorts of things we want you to do with
  266. 9:09it. All right, so there you have it.
  267. 9:10Happy studies.

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