Spring Quarter Chemistry Lecture Topics

(chemistry things you need to demonstrate proficiency in)

 

            Acids & Bases                                                             Oxidation Numbers

Titrations                                                                      Redox Reactions

PH                                                                               Electrochemical Cells

Indicators                                                                     Standard Reduction Potentials

Buffers                                                                         Enthalpy

Chemical Equilibrium                                                    Hess’s Law

            ICE Tables                                                                   Heat Capacity

            Le Chatelier’s Principle                                                 Calorimetry

            Rate Laws                                                                    Entropy

            Activation Energy                                                         1st, 2nd, 3rd Laws of Thermodynamics

            Catalysis                                                                       Gibbs Free Energy & Equilibria

 

Covering chapters 15, 16, 5, 19, 6, 13 and 18 (listed in order of coverage) in Chemistry Matter and Its Changes

by Brady, Russell & Holum.

 


 

Winter Quarter Chemistry Lecture Topics

(chemistry things you need to demonstrate proficiency in)

 

            Atomic Orbital Shape                                                   Lewis Structures

            Covalent Bonding                                                         Electrognegativity

            Polarity                                                                         Formal Charge

            Resonance                                                                    VSEPR Theory

            Hybridization                                                                VB Theory

            MO Theory                                                                  Gas Laws

            Mole Fractions & Percents                                           Kinetic Theory of Gases

            Intermolecular Forces                                                   Vapor Pressure

            Energies of phase changes                                             Phase Diagrams

            Structures of Solids                                                       Bonding in Ionic Solids

            Properties of Liquids & Solids                                      Solution Types

            Solubility                                                                      Colligative Properties

            Colloids                                                                        Chemical Equilibrium

            Le Chatelier’s Principle                                                 ICE Tables

 

Covering chapters 7(section 7.8), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14) in Chemistry Matter and Its Changes by Brady, Russell & Holum.

 


 

Fall Quarter Chemistry Lecture Topics

(chemistry things you need to demonstrate proficiency in)

 

Unit Conversions                                                          Significant Figures

            Bohr’s Atomic Theory                                                  Periodic Table

            Naming Compounds                                                     Writing Compound Formulas

            Electronic Configurations                                              Electromagnetic Waves

            Writing and Balancing Nuclear Equations                      Radioactivity

            Stoichiometry                                                               Molar Mass

            Concentration                                                               Balancing Reactions

            Predicting Reaction Products                                        Rxn ID and Categorization

            Limiting Reagents                                                          Percent Yield

 

Covering chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7(excluding 7.8) & 22 in Chemistry Matter and Its Changes by Brady, Russell & Holum.

 

 

 

 


Updated on 3-19-04 by Rebecca Sunderman