Do isotopes have the same number as energy shells?

Answer 1

An electron orbital describes in terms of quantum mechanics the position of each electron around the atomic nucleus, and an energy level is associated with each orbital. The orbitals are grouped in shells and sub-shells, and the energy levels are affected by more than one quantum parameter so the picture gets complicated for atoms with many electrons. If you want to follow this up, try the link below.

Answer 2

The correct answer to this question is no. But, there is a condition when the answer is yes.

However, the question is complicated by the language used to describe the electronic structure of an atom. Sometimes, when you hear people discuss the electronic state of an atom, they are not careful with their language and they use "energy level" and "electron orbit" as ways to specify a quantum state of an atom. Such sloppy terminology is common and incorrect.

First, there are no electron orbits. Orbit is a classical concept. There are "orbitals" and that is a term describing a single particle wave function. Real atoms do not have orbitals since they are multi-electron systems. The only systems that have orbitals are hydrogenic, i.e. one-electron systems. Nonetheless, if we have an approximate idea of the electronic structure of an atom that is a product wave function of orbitals, we can create a fairly accurate picture. As a consequence, we hear people talk about the real physical system using the language of an approximate picture. In such approximate pictures, sometimes we assign energies to particular orbitals. That is a useful mental construct for some discussions but it is not a description of what Mother Nature does in real atoms.

All that said, we hear people talk about the quantum state of atoms as though they consisted of orbitals and when we are talking about simple electronic excitations we can get an approximate idea of the change in electronic structure by talking about a change in orbitals. With simple excitations, we can assign energies to them and we can then mistakenly use those as identification when naming the orbitals.

So, from and answer of "no" we can get to an answer of "yes."

The answer is yes, when people are identifying simple electronic excitations, the independent particle models for electronic structure are often accurate enough that we may give the electronic state a name based on a single particle model and we may name the orbital with the name of an energy level. It is furthermore unfortunately true that when teaching quantum mechanics and trying to avoid subleties and complications, this short hand language is used as though it is a true description of the quantum state of an atom.

Answer 3

energy level corresponds to the shell orbital. Shell orbitals have a specified order of energy, like 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s, 3d...The specific energy of that level is different from element to element. You can calculate that value, but I think that a question asking for energy level is asking for which orbital.

Answer 4

no, energy levels have to do with weather the atom is posivite or negitive. and electron clouds have to do with the random locations of the electrons in that atom

Answer 5

they are the same only in high skool its called electron clouds but dey are both the same thing

Answer 6

if you're talking about electrons then yes