CHEMISTRY 0111

Tentative Lecture Schedule

 

Week of

Lecture Topic

Readings, Quizzes, Exams

 

August 25 – 29

     1

Keys to studying Chemistry

Definitions

Thinking like a Scientist

Measurement

What is Matter?

View of  the atom: then & now

Chapter 1

  1.1

  1.2 – 1.4

  1.5 – 1.6 

Chapter 2

   2.1 – 2.5

Quiz

 

Sept 1 – 5

     2

(Mon.  9/1 holiday. Only 3 classes)

 

 Elements, Compounds & Mixtures

  Stoichiometry:

The mole & Formula Stoichiometry

Balancing Equations & Reaction     Stoichiometry

2.6 —2.9

Chapter 3

   3.1 & 3.2

   3.3 – 3.4

Quiz

 

Sept 8 – 12

     3

 

Stoichiometry – in solution

Chemical Reactions:

 Solutions & Electrolytes

 Reactions In Aqueous Solution

     – Precipitation & Acid-Base

  3.5

Chapter 4

  4.1

  4.2 – 4.4

 

Sept 15 – 19 

     4

 

Reactions in Aqueous Solution – contd

Redox Reactions

Another way of Looking at Reactions

 

 

4.5

4.6 & 4.7

Quiz 9/19

Practice Test 9/21

 

EXAM 1 Wednesday, September 24, 2008  (Chapters 1 - 4)

 

 

Sept 22 –26 

     5

 

 

Gas Laws:

  Measuring gas pressure

  Kinetic Molecular Theory

  Empirical Gas Laws & Ideal Gas Law

 

Chapter 5

  5.1 – 5.2

  5.6

  5.3 &   5.4 – 5.5

  Quiz

 

Sept 29 – Oct 3

     6

“Real” Gases

Thermochemistry:

  Definition of Terms

  Heat & Energy

  Calorimetry

 

  5.7

Chapter 6

  6.1

  6.2

  6.3

  Quiz

 

Oct 6 – 10  

     7

 

Stoichiometry & Thermochemistry

Enthalpy & Hess's Law

 6.4 

 6.5 – 6.6

Review 10/14 

 

EXAM 2 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Chapters 5 and 6)

 

 

Oct 13 – 17 

     8

No class Mon 10/13 Meet as usual 10/14

Atomic Structure

Electromagnetic Radiation, Atomic Spectra & the Bohr Model

Quantum Mechanical Picture of the Atom

Chapters 7 & 8

  7.1 – 7.2

  7.3 – 7.4

  Quiz

 

Oct 20 – 24 

     9

Structure & Periodicity

Electronic Structure of the Atom

Periodic Behavior

Physical periodicity

Chemical periodicity

 Bonding & Molecular Shape

Ionic Bonds

Chapter 8

  8.1 – 8.3 

 

  8.4 

  8.5

Chapters 9 & 10

 9.1 – 9.2

Quiz

 

Oct 27 – 31 

    10

Bonding & Molecular Shape – contd

    Covalent Bonding

Electronegativity & Bond Polarity

Lewis Structures

Molecular shape (VSEPR) & Polarity

Chapters 9 & 10

  9.3

  9.4 (9.5*)

  10.1

  10.2 – 10.3

Quiz

 

Nov 3 – 7 

    11

Bonding Theory

  Valence Bond  & Hybridization

  Molecular Orbital Theory

Chapter 11

  11.1 – 11.2

  11.3

 

Exam 3:   Wednesday, November  12, 2008 (Chapters 7-11)

 

 

Nov 10 – 14

    12

Liquids, Solids & Phase Changes

Phase Changes

Intermolecular Forces

Properties of Liquids

Water

 

Chapter 12

  12.1 – 12.2

  12.3

  12.4

  12.5

  Quiz

 

 

Nov 17 – 21 

    13

Properties of Solids

Special kinds of solids*

Properties of Solutions

Intermolecular Forces & Predicting Solubility

  12.6

  12.7*

Chapter 13

  13.1

 

Nov 24 - 28 

(Only 2 classes)

Solutions – continued

Intermolecular Forces & Predicting Solubility

Biological Macromolecules

Chapter 13 – contd

  13.1

  13.2 

 

Nov 22 – 28  

Thanksgiving Break

No Classes

 

Dec 1 – 5   

    14

Solutions – continued

   Biological Macromolecules

    Solution Process: Energy & Equilibrium

 

Chapter 13 – Contd

13.2 

13.3 – 13.4

  Quiz

 

Final Exam:

Wednesday, December  10, 2008

9:00 to 11:00

E&S Auditorium

 

 

* You are responsible for the material in these sections although it may not be presented explicitly during the lecture!