CHEMISTRY 0111

Planning for Fall 2013

Tentative Lecture & Lab Schedule

 

Week of

Lecture Topic

Readings, Quizzes, Exams

 

August 26 – Aug 30 

     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 2 – 6 

     2

(Mon.  9/2 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 9 – 13 

     3

 

    Stoichiometry – in solution

     Empirical & Molecular formulas

Chemical Reactions:

 Solutions & Electrolytes

 Reactions In Aqueous Solution

     – Precipitation & Acid-Base

  3.5

 

Chapter 4

  4.1

  4.2 – 4.4

 

Sept 16 – 20  

     4

 

Reactions in Aqueous Solution – contd

Redox Reactions

Another way of Looking at Reactions

 

 

4.5

4.6 & 4.7

Quiz

EXAM 1 Wednesday, September 25, 2013 (Chapters 1 - 4)

 

Sept 23 – 27  

     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 30 – Oct 4 

     6

“Real” Gases

Thermochemistry:

  Definition of Terms

  Heat & Energy

  Calorimetry

 

  5.7

Chapter 6

  6.1

  6.2

  6.3

  Quiz

 

Oct 7 – 11   

     7

 

Stoichiometry & Thermochemistry

Enthalpy & Hess's Law

 6.4 

 6.5 – 6.6

 

Oct 14 – 18  

     8

No class Mon 10/14

Meet as usual 10/15

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

EXAM 2 Friday, October 18, 2012 (Chapters 5 and 6)

 

Oct 21 – 25  

     9

(10/25 Last day to drop)

Structure & Periodicity

Electronic Structure of the Atom

Periodic Behavior

Physical periodicity

Chemical periodicity

 

Chapter 8

  8.1 – 8.3 

 

  8.4 

  8.5

Quiz

 

Oct 28 – Nov 1   

    10

Bonding & Molecular Shape – contd

    Ionic Bonds

    Covalent Bonding

Electronegativity & Bond Polarity

Lewis Structures

Molecular shape (VSEPR) & Polarity

Chapters 9 & 10

  9.1 – 9.2

  9.3

  9.4 (9.5*)

  10.1

  10.2 – 10.3

Quiz

 

Nov 4 – 8  

    11

 

Molecular shape (VSEPR) & Polarity

Bonding Theory

  Valence Bond  & Hybridization

  Molecular Orbital Theory

  10.2 – 10.3

Chapter 11

  11.1 – 11.2

  11.3

Quiz

Exam 3:   Wednesday, November 13, 2013 (Chapters 7-11)

 

Nov 11 – 15

    12

Liquids, Solids & Phase Changes

Phase Changes

Intermolecular Forces

Chapter 12

  12.1 – 12.2

  12.3

  Quiz

 

Nov 18 – 22

    13

 

Liquids, Solids & Phase Changes

Phase Changes

Intermolecular Forces

Properties of Liquids

Water

 

Chapter 12

  12.1 – 12.2

12.3

12.4

12.5

 

 

Nov 25 –29 

   

(No lab; only 2 classes)

Continue Chapter 12

Properties of Solids

Special kinds of solids*

Properties of Solutions

 

Chapter 12 – contd

12.6

12.7* 

  Chapter 13

  13.1

Quiz

 

Nov 27 – 29  

Thanksgiving Break

No Classes

 

Dec 2 – 6

    14

Properties of Solutions

Intermolecular Forces & Predicting Solubility 

   Biological Macromolecules

 

Chapter 13

  13.1

 

13.2 

  Quiz

 

Final Exam:

Review Session: Sunday (12/8)??

Tuesday, December  10, 9:00 – 11:00 E&S 200

 

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