| www.mindbites.com for a bundle of videos on Atomic Structure. For an even broader bundle of videos that cover Atomic Structure and Atoms, Molecules, and Ions, check out www.mindbites.com . To search for topic-specific help in our library of 400+ video products for Chemistry, please refer to our Chemistry category at: www.mindbites.com . To check out our full Chemistry video course, with 300+ videos included, refer to: www.mindbites.com . Or, for access to this single video, go to: www.mindbites.com . Professor Harman explains isotopes and atomic mass in this lesson covering atomic structure. Most elements exist in nature as more than one isotope. Isotopes are atoms that have the same number of protons as the element but a different number of neutrons. The number of protons always remains the same, as this number (also known as the atomic number) is what determines the element. Prof. Harman also introduces atomic mass units, or amu's, which are a more convenient unit for describing the very small masses of atoms. Next, Professor Harman explains more about the masses of elements. The amu is derived from carbon 12 and is equal to 1.6605 x 10^-27. The relative atomic mass listed on the periodic table of the elements is a weighted average of the masses of the isotopes of an element. You might also observe that the mass of an isotope is less than the sum of masses of its nucleons and electrons. Professor Harman explains the relationship between mass and energy that Einstein ... |
