How to Use Graphs to Determine Atomic Trends — Transcript
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- 0:00All right, let's talk about how you
- 0:01could use a graph such as this to
- 0:03determine a periodic trend. So, for this
- 0:06one, you need to talk about what is the
- 0:08trend across a period and what is trend
- 0:10across a group. Remember, a period is
- 0:13side-to-side across the periodic table,
- 0:15so a period is this. A group would be up
- 0:17and down. So, there's a group, there's
- 0:19another group, there's another group,
- 0:20there's another group, there's another
- 0:22group, etc. So, uh let's start with
- 0:25determining the trend across It doesn't
- 0:28matter which one you do first. Maybe
- 0:31across a group. Remember, a group is up
- 0:33and down. So, if I want to look in a
- 0:34group, I'm going to check lithium.
- 0:36And looking at the periodic table, I see
- 0:38lithium is in the same group as sodium,
- 0:40potassium, rubidium, cesium. So, I see
- 0:43lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium,
- 0:45cesium. These are in the same group as
- 0:47lithium.
- 0:48So, let's see what the trend is. So, in
- 0:50this group, we see that this thing, and
- 0:52in this case it's atomic radius, but it
- 0:54could be anything, um this trait
- 0:57increases from lithium to sodium. Okay,
- 0:59notice that
- 1:01the y-axis tells you what you are
- 1:03looking at.
- 1:05The x-axis
- 1:07it says atomic number, but it says the
- 1:08same thing, atomic number here and
- 1:10atomic number
- 1:12here. So, all the graphs say atomic
- 1:14number on the y on the x-axis. It's the
- 1:16y-axis that tells you what it is you're
- 1:18looking at, electronegativity
- 1:20or ionization energy or atomic radius.
- 1:23So, in this case what we're looking at
- 1:24is
- 1:26atomic radius, the trait we're looking
- 1:28at increases
- 1:29because this is higher on the y-axis or
- 1:31sorry, this is not as high as this one.
- 1:34So, being that this is higher than this
- 1:35one on the y-axis, the trait is greater
- 1:37for this one than it is for this one.
- 1:38So, it is increasing
- 1:40in the direction of sodium.
- 1:44It's further increased in the direction
- 1:46of potassium. It's further increased in
- 1:48the direction of rubidium.
- 1:49So, from lithium to sodium this trait
- 1:51increased and it increased even further
- 1:53toward potassium, whatever. So, I look
- 1:55on the periodic table.
- 1:58We said it increased from lithium
- 2:00sodium. Well, if you're going from
- 2:02lithium to sodium, that's downward, and
- 2:04then from sodium to potassium, it's
- 2:05downwards. So, we're going to say this
- 2:07trait is increasing in the downward
- 2:09direction. So, I put an arrow like that.
- 2:12And then um
- 2:14for this one here,
- 2:18now that I've looked at it across the
- 2:19group, these are the same group as each
- 2:21other because they're in the same
- 2:22vertical column. Now I need to look at
- 2:24the trend across one of these periods.
- 2:27Remember, period is side to side.
- 2:29So, if I do lithium again, it doesn't
- 2:31matter. I could do any of these and get
- 2:32the same answer. But lithium, what's in
- 2:35the same period as lithium? So, I look
- 2:36across the beryllium,
- 2:38boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen,
- 2:40fluorine, neon.
- 2:42I see Oh, there's fluorine right there.
- 2:44Fluorine is in the same group as
- 2:45lithium.
- 2:47Sorry, I don't know why I said group.
- 2:48The same period as lithium.
- 2:50So, I want to see what's in the same
- 2:52period.
- 2:54And these are in the same period right
- 2:56here. So,
- 2:58fluorine is number nine, lithium is
- 2:59number three. So, this must be number
- 3:00four, number five, six, seven, eight,
- 3:02nine.
- 3:04So, these must all be in the same period
- 3:05as each other. And in which direction do
- 3:06they increase? Well, fluorine is down
- 3:09here, lithium's up here on the graph.
- 3:10So, since fluorine's lower on the y-axis
- 3:12than lithium is,
- 3:14the trait is increasing as I go from
- 3:16fluorine toward lithium
- 3:19along this
- 3:20period right here of these different
- 3:22atoms.
- 3:23So, I look on here.
- 3:27It's increasing as I go from fluorine to
- 3:29lithium. So, from fluorine to lithium is
- 3:32going this way from fluorine to lithium.
- 3:36So, the trend for
- 3:38atomic
- 3:39radius
- 3:42increases as you move
- 3:45downward
- 3:48and toward the left
- 3:51on the periodic table
- 3:53as shown right here. Again, you do not
- 3:55need to memorize this. You should be
- 3:57able to look at this graph and come up
- 3:58with this. So, for practice sake,
- 4:02I'm going to go through the other two on
- 4:03this graph, the ionization energy and
- 4:06the
- 4:07electronegativity. So I would say to
- 4:09you, I'm going to go through and present
- 4:11the answer right now. Pause this, figure
- 4:12out for yourself
- 4:14what the direction would be of the trend
- 4:17as in like downward or upward or left or
- 4:18right, and then figure it out for
- 4:20yourself and then replay the video to
- 4:22see what I come to and see if it's in
- 4:23agreement. So I'll assume you're pausing
- 4:26right now and I'll assume you're now
- 4:27rewinding I assume now you're watching
- 4:28now you finished solving it. So here we
- 4:31go. Let's see.
- 4:34What do we got here?
- 4:35Let's do I guess I did the up and down
- 4:37across the group first, so I'll do that
- 4:39again. These are in the same group as
- 4:41each other.
- 4:43And I see that ionization energy the or
- 4:46any trait this trait is greater for
- 4:48helium than it is for argon.
- 4:50So from argon toward neon toward helium
- 4:52it's increasing as I go from argon
- 4:54toward helium.
- 4:57And from argon toward helium is upward
- 5:01along the periodic table. So this trait
- 5:02is increasing as we go upward along the
- 5:04periodic table.
- 5:07Let's see.
- 5:09How about along a period? Let's see.
- 5:13Neon helium
- 5:15only hydrogen, so there's nothing in the
- 5:17same period as helium here. Neon
- 5:20yeah, all of these are in the same
- 5:21period as neon and there's nitrogen,
- 5:24there's beryllium, there's lithium. So
- 5:27these things are in the same period, so
- 5:28that's perfect. I can work with these.
- 5:30I could also use these and get the exact
- 5:32same answer.
- 5:34Let's see. So from
- 5:35this trait is increasing from lithium,
- 5:38it's more in beryllium, it's more in
- 5:39nitrogen, and it's most in neon.
- 5:42So this trait is increasing as I go from
- 5:43lithium toward neon. So from lithium
- 5:45toward neon is
- 5:47right
- 5:49on the periodic table like so.
- 5:53So from lithium toward neon by the way
- 5:55if I looked at this from sodium it's
- 5:56increasing toward argon.
- 5:59So I could say from sodium it's
- 6:00increasing as I go rightward toward
- 6:02argon. So looking at either period I
- 6:03would have gotten the answer. So that is
- 6:05why I'm going to say
- 6:07ionization energy increases as you move
- 6:09upward
- 6:12and toward the right.
- 6:16Ionization
- 6:19energy
- 6:21Not that you need to memorize that, but
- 6:22uh why not? It's good to have a label.
- 6:24And then after the next one
- 6:27do not Okay.
- 6:30Electronegativity or any trend that has
- 6:32a graph like this.
- 6:34So this stuff
- 6:36Let's see. Uh fluorine I see standing
- 6:39out pretty obviously fluorine. Okay,
- 6:41what's in the same group as fluorine?
- 6:42Uh
- 6:44chlorine is in the same group as
- 6:46fluorine.
- 6:47Bromine's in the same group. Iodine's
- 6:48the same group. Astatine is the same
- 6:50group.
- 6:52So we can work with those.
- 6:55So I see the trend is going generally
- 6:57like upward. Bromine is less than
- 7:00fluorine. So we'd say the trend's going
- 7:02upward in this direction as I go from
- 7:03astatine toward iodine, toward bromine,
- 7:05toward chlorine, toward fluorine. With
- 7:07fluorine having the most of this trait
- 7:08cuz it's highest on the y-axis
- 7:10and astatine having the least cuz it's
- 7:12lowest on the y-axis. So
- 7:15it's increasing as we go from astatine
- 7:17toward iodine, toward bromine, all the
- 7:19way toward fluorine. So it's increasing
- 7:21as I go this way.
- 7:24That's upward.
- 7:26Okay, so from astatine to iodine, to
- 7:27bromine, to fluorine, from bromine to
- 7:29fluorine, whatever, from this from here
- 7:31to here to here to here that's upward on
- 7:32the periodic table. Oops, you can't even
- 7:33see that. From here to here to here to
- 7:35here that's upward on the periodic
- 7:36table. So that's why I put this upward
- 7:38arrow here.
- 7:40Um the
- 7:44period trend I can pick any of these and
- 7:47get the exact same results. So I'll just
- 7:48do this one just to prevent no
- 7:49particularly good reason. Um
- 7:52lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon,
- 7:54nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine. Notice how
- 7:56they're all in the same period as each
- 7:57other. Lithium, beryllium, boron,
- 7:59carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine. So
- 8:03same period as each other. Lithium has
- 8:05has least cuz it's lowest on the y-axis.
- 8:07Fluorine has the most of this trend
- 8:08because it's highest on the y-axis.
- 8:11So it's increasing as they go from
- 8:12lithium toward fluorine.
- 8:14So it's increasing as you go from
- 8:15lithium toward fluorine. Well, from
- 8:17lithium toward fluorine, that is
- 8:20rightward on the periodic table, and
- 8:22that's the reason why I am going to put
- 8:24a rightward-facing arrow on here because
- 8:27the trend is increasing as I move toward
- 8:29the right. Now, of course, in this case,
- 8:31let's see, let's fill this in.
- 8:33Increases you move upward
- 8:36and toward the
- 8:38right.
- 8:41The trend is for
- 8:48which I guess is inside is the power to
- 8:49attract electrons.
- 8:54All right, there you go. So there's some
- 8:55pointers for how to read these graphs in
- 8:57order to figure out what the trend is.
- 8:59Um I would definitely say practice makes
- 9:01perfect, so rewatch this video, try
- 9:03again, resolve it again, and
- 9:05um that should pretty much cover the
- 9:08sorts of things we want you to do with
- 9:09it. All right, so there you have it.
- 9:10Happy studies.
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