CHEM 1201 Group Syllabus

Fall 2006

 

Text:  Chemistry: The Central Science, Brown, LeMay & Bursten, 10th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2006

 

Chapter 1:    Introduction:  Matter and Measurement

            Students are responsible for reading & understanding chapter 1.

            Students are responsible for significant figures and dimensional analysis.

 

Chapter 2:    Atoms, Molecules, and Ions

            Students are responsible for reading & understanding sections 2.1-2.2

2.3             The Modern View of Atomic Structure

2.4             Atomic Weights

2.5             The Periodic Table

2.6             Molecules and Molecular Compounds

2.7             Ions and Ionic Compounds

2.8             Naming Inorganic Compounds

2.9             Some Simple Organic Compounds

 

Chapter 3:    Stoichiometry: Calculations with Chemical Formulas and Equations

3.1       Chemical Equations

3.2       Some Simple Patterns of Chemical Reactivity

3.3       Formula Weights

3.4       Avogadro’s Number and the Mole

3.5       Empirical Formulas from Analyses

3.6       Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations

3.7       Limiting Reagents

 

Chapter 4:    Aqueous Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry

4.1       General Properties of Aqueous Solution

4.2       Precipitation Reactions

4.3       Acid-Base Reactions

4.5       Concentrations of Solutions

4.6       Solution Stoichiometry & Chemical Analysis

 

Chapter 5:    Thermochemistry (INTRODUCTION)

5.1       The Nature of Energy

5.3       Enthalpy

5.4       Enthalpies of Reaction

 

Chapter 6:    Electronic Structure of Atoms

6.1       The Wave Nature of Light

6.2       Quantized Energy and Photons

6.3       Line Spectra and the Bohr Model

6.4       The Wave Nature of Matter

6.5       Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals

6.6       Representations of Orbitals

6.7       Many-Electron Atoms

6.8       Electron Configurations

6.9       Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table

 

Chapter 7:    Periodic Properties of the Elements

7.1       Development of the Periodic Table

7.2             Effective Nuclear Charge

7.3             Sizes of Atoms and Ions

7.4       Ionization Energy

7.5       Electron Affinities

7.6       Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids

7.7       Group Trends for the Active Metals

7.8       Group Trends for Selected Nonmetals

 

Chapter 8:    Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding

8.1       Chemical Bonds, Lewis Symbols, and the Octet Rule

8.2       Ionic Bonding

8.3       Covalent Bonding

8.4       Bond Polarity and Electronegativity

8.5       Drawing Lewis Structures

8.6       Resonance Structures

8.7       Exceptions to the Octet Rule

8.8       Strengths of Covalent Bonds

 

Chapter 9:    Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

9.1       Molecular Shapes

9.2       The VSEPR Model

9.3       Molecular Shape and Molecular Polarity

9.4       Covalent Bonding and Orbital Overlap

9.5             Hybrid Orbitals

9.6             Multiple Bonds

 

Chapter 10:  Gases

10.1    Characteristics of Gases

10.2         Pressure

10.3         The Gas Laws

10.4    The Ideal-Gas Equation

10.5    Further Applications of the Ideal-Gas Equation

10.6    Gas Mixtures and Partial Pressures

10.7    Kinetic-Molecular Theory

10.8         Molecular Effusion and Diffusion

 

Chapter 11:  Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, and Solids

11.1    A Molecular Comparison of Gases, Liquids and Solids

11.2    Intermolecular Forces

11.3    Some Properties of Liquids

11.4    Phase Changes  

11.5         Vapor Pressure

11.6         Phase Diagrams

11.7         Structures of Solids

11.8         Bonding in Solids

 

Chapter 12:  Modern Materials (IF TIME ALLOWS)

 

Chapter 13:  Properties of Solutions

13.3    Factors Affecting Solubility

13.4    Ways of Expressing Concentration

13.5    Colligative Properties