What is the highest principal energy level for an electron in an atom of sulfur in the ground state?

What is the highest principal energy level for an electron in an atom of sulfur in the ground state?

3s²

What are the main energy levels in the electron configuration?

The order of increasing energy of orbitals as shown below, is backed by experimental data. The arrangement of electrons within an atom is called the electronic configuration and the electrons are filled up according to the energy of the levels as: 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d, 4p, 5s, 4d, 5p, 6s, 4f, 5d, 6p, 7s, 5f.

Where do electrons get their charge from?

So now we can answer your question in the language of the quantum field: the electron gets its charge by the field allowing to create one positive charge state and one negative charge state at the same time, leaving its total charge zero.

What if there were no electrons?

You would become plasma as there are no electrons to form molecules. You wouldn’t exist unless you were plasma. Meaning you would die. Nothing other than plasma would exist in such a universe.

Does an electron move at extreme speed?

A calculation shows that the electron is traveling at about 2,200 kilometers per second. That’s less than 1% of the speed of light, but it’s fast enough to get it around the Earth in just over 18 seconds. Read up on what happens when nothing can go faster than the speed of light.

Does a nucleus contain electrons?

Atomic Particles The nucleus (center) of the atom contains the protons (positively charged) and the neutrons (no charge). The outermost regions of the atom are called electron shells and contain the electrons (negatively charged).

What keeps electrons in orbit around the nucleus?

Electrons are kept in the orbit around the nucleus by the electromagnetic force, because the nucleus in the center of the atom is positively charged and attracts the negatively charged electrons.

Why do electrons orbit around the nucleus?

Like gravity acting on planets, an electromagnetic force attracts the orbiting electron to the nucleus. Classical physicists wondered that the electron didn’t run out of energy. Niels Bohr solved this mystery by introducing quanta, discrete energy states in which electrons may stably persist.