3.03 Periodic Trends

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3.03 Periodic Trends Julianne Mazzaro 1. Refer to the graph that you created in Part I of this assignment. Describe the general trend or patterns that you observed in the atomic radius as you go across the periodic table. As the number of protons (atomic number) gets bigger, the atomic radius gets smaller. The largest decrease in size was from 3 to 4, and it leveled out after the 5 to 6 decrease. 2. In Part II of this assignment, you graphed the atomic radius of some elements from group 14 on the periodic table. What is the general trend for atomic radius going down that group? As the period number gets bigger, so does the atomic radius. There is almost no increase in atomic radius from 3, Silicon to 4, Germanium. 3. What element in Period 5 of the periodic table is a member of Group 14? Tin 4. The word interpolate means to use a given line graph to find unknown points between the plotted points of the graph. Use your line graph from Part II to interpolate, or estimate, atomic radius of Tin (Sn). I think it would be in around 145. 5. Tin's actual atomic radius is 140 pm. Use the math equation below to determine the percent error of your estimated value. (140-145) x100 = 3.5 140 1. The atomic radius you estimated from your graph is most likely not exactly the same as the true atomic radius of tin. There is a small percent error. What do you think caused this error? There is no way to tell from looking at the graph exactly what it would be without a point. Also, the numbers do not increase at regular intervals, so you really can’t

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