CHEMISTRY LECTURE    Syllabus

 

Description of Lecture

Chemistry Lecture 2 hours per week, and recitation

Focus of Lecture  Introduction to Chemistry - Chemical symbols, formulas, and equations; the states of matter; electronic structure and bonding

Text:  Chemistry  McMurry and Fay,  Prentice Hall Publisher; Chemical Principles Zumdahl, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Co.; General Chemistry - An Integrated Approach.  Hill and Petrucci.  Second Edition.  Prentice Hall Publishers or to be decided.

 

 

Topics of Lecture 

 

·   Basic Chemical Concepts

·   Atoms, Molecules and Ions

·   Stoichiometry: Chemical Formulas and Equations

·   Aqueous Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry

·   Energy Relations in Chemistry: Thermochemistry

·   Electronic Structure of Atoms

·   Periodic Properties of the Elements

·   Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding

·   Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

·   Gases

·   Intermolecular Forces

·   State of matter

·   Physical properties of solutions

·   Kinetics

·   Equilibria

·   Thermodynamics

·   Electrochemistry

·   Organic chemistry

 

 

Contents of Lecture

 

Basic Concepts

Hypotheses, Theories and Facts

Dimensional Analysis

Introduction to Matter

Elements and Compounds


Atoms, Molecules and Ions

The Atomic Theory of Matter

The Discovery of Atomic Structure

Modern View of Atomic Structure

The Periodic Table

Molecules and Ions

Naming of Inorganic Compounds


Stoichiometry: Chemical Formulas and Equations

Chemical Equations

Patterns of Chemical Reactivity

Atomic and Molecular Weights

The Mole

Empirical Formulas from Analyses

Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations

Limiting Reactants


Aqueous Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry

Solution Composition

Solution Stoichiometry


Energy Relations in Chemistry: Thermochemistry

The Nature of Energy

Heat and Enthalpy Changes

Calorimetry

Hess's Law

Enthalpies of Formation

Foods and Fuels


Electronic Structure of Atoms

The Wave Nature of Light

Quantum Effects and Photons

Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom

The Dual Nature of the Electron

Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals

Representations of Orbitals

Orbitals in Many-electron Atoms

Electron Configurations

Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table


Periodic Properties of the Elements

Development of the Periodic Table

Electron Shells in Atoms

Sizes of Atoms

Ionization Energy

Electronic Affinities

Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids

Group Trends: the Active Metals

Group Trends: Selected Nonmetals


Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding

Lewis Symbols and the Octet Rule

Ionic Bonding

Sizes of Ions

Covalent Bonding

Bond Polarity

Drawing Lewis Structures

Resonance Structures

Exceptions to the Octet Rule

Strengths of Covalent Bonds

Oxidation Numbers


Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

Molecular Geometries

The VSEPR Model

Polarity of Molecules

Covalent Bonding and Orbital Overlap

Hybrid Orbitals

Multiple Bonds


Gases

Characteristics of Gases

Pressure

The Gas Law

The Ideal Gas Equation

Molar Mass and Gas Densities

Gas Mixtures and Partial Pressures

Volumes of Gases in Chemical Reactions

Kinetic-Molecular Theory

Molecular Effusion and Diffusion

Deviation from Ideal Behavior


State of matter and Intermolecular Forces

The Kinetic-molecular Description of Liquids and Solids

Intermolecular Forces

Properties of Liquids: Viscosity and Surface Tension

Changes of State

Vapor Pressure

Phase Diagrams

Bonding in Solids

Phase changes involving solids
van der Waals Forces
Hydrogen bonds

Network covalent solids
Ionic bonds

Structures of Solids


Physical properties of solutions

Energetics of solution formation
Equilibrium in solution formation

Solubility of gases
Vapor pressure of solutions

Freezing point depression and boiling point elevation
Osmotic pressure

Solutions of electrolytes
Colloids


Kinetics

Measuring reaction rates
The rate law of a reaction

First-order reactions
Reactions of other orders

Theories of chemical kinetics
Effect of temperature on rate

Reaction mechanisms

Catalysis
Enzyme catalysis


Equilibria

Modifying equilibrium constant expressions

Le Chatelier's Principle

Equilibrium calculations

The pH scale

Equilibrium solutions of weak acids and bases

Polyprotic acids
Ions as acids and bases

The common-ion effect
Buffer solutions

Acid-base indicators
Neutralization reactions and titration curves
Lewis acids and bases

Common-ion effect in equilibria
Occurance of precipitation

Effect of pH on solubility
Equilibria of complex ions

Qualitative inorganic analysis


Thermodynamics

Entropy: disorder and spontaneity

Free energy and free energy change
Standard free energy change
DG0

Free energy change and equilibrium

Dependence of DG0 and Keq on temperature


Electrochemistry

Voltaic cells
Standard electrode potentials

Electrode potentials
Effect of concentrations on cell voltage

Batteries
Corrosion
Predicting electrolysis reactions

Quantitative electrolysis
Applications of electrolysis


Organic chemistry

The nature of organic molecules

Writing organic structures

Naming molecules

The shapes of organic molecules

Functional groups

Saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons

The reactions of organic molecules

Polymers


Biochemistry

Proteins

Amino Acids and peptides

Nucleic acids

Lipids

 

 

Sample Lecture Calendar

Date

Text Chapter

Topic

Text pp

 

1. Chemistry: Matter and Measurement

2. Atoms, Molecules and Ions  

1.2 Getting Started: Some Key Terms

2.1 Laws of Chemical Combination

3-9

36-38

 

 

2.2 John Dalton and the Atomic Theory of Matter

2.3 The Divisible Atom

2.4 Atomic Masses

38-40

40-42

42-44

 

 

2.5 The Periodic Table Elements Organized

2.6 Molecules and Molecular Compounds

45-48

48-52

 

 

2.7 Ions and Ionic Compounds

2.8 Acids, Bases, and Salts

52-58

58-61

 

 

2.9 Alkanes: Saturated Hydrocarbons

2.10 Types of Organic Compounds

61-66

67-71

 

3. Stoichiometry: Chemical Calculations

3.1 Molecular Masses and Formula Masses

3.2 The Mole and Avocadro's Number

3.3 More on the Mole

82-84

84-86

86-90

 

 

3.4 Mass Percent Composition from Chemical Formulas

3.5 Chemical Formulas from Mass Percent Composition

3.6 Elemental Analysis: Experimental Determination of Mass Percent Composition

90-93

94-97

97-100

 

 

3.7 Writing and Balancing Chemical Equations

3.8 Stoichiometric Equivalence and Reaction Stoichiometry

100-105

105-109

 

 

3.9 Limiting Reactants

3.10 Yields of Chemical Reactions

3.11 Solutions and Solution Stoichiometry

110-112

112-115

115-123

 

4. Chemical Reactions in Aqueous Solutions

4.1 Some Electrical Properties of Aqueous Solutions

4.2 Reactions of Acids and Bases

133-137

137-147

 

 

4.3 Reactions that Form Precipitates

4.4 Oxidation-Reduction

148-152

153-159

 

 

4.5 Oxidizing and Reducing Agents

4.6 Some Practical Applications of Oxidation and Reduction

160-163

163-169

 

5. Gases

5.1 Gases: What Are They Like?

5.2 The Kinetic-Molecular Theory: An Introduction

5.3 Gas Pressure

5.4 Boyle's Law: The Pressure-Volume Relationship

178

179

179-184

185-187

 

 

5.5 Charles' Law: The Temperature-Volume Relationship

5.6 Avogadro's Law: The Mole-Volume Relationship

5.7 The Combined Gas Law

187-191

191-192

193-194

 

 

5.8 The Ideal Gas Law

5.9 Gases in Reaction Stoichiometry

195-200

201-204

 

 

5.10 Mixtures of Gases: Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

5.11 The Kinetic-Molecular Theory: Some Quantitative Aspects

5.12 Real Gases

204-209

210-215

216-217

 

6. Thermochemistry

6.1 Energy

6.2 Thermochemistry: Some Basic Terms

227-229

229-233

 

 

6.3 Internal Energy (U), State Functions, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

HD6.4 Heats of Reaction and Enthalpy Change,

233-236

236-244

 

 

6.5 Calorimetry: Measuring Quantities of Heat

244-253

 

 

6.6 Hess' Law of Constant Heat Summation

6.7 Standard Enthalpies of Formation

6.8 Combustion and Respiration: Fuels and Foods

253-256

256-262

262-266

 

7. Atomic Structure

7.1 The Electron: Experiments of Thomson and Millikan

7.2 Atomic Models: J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford

7.3 Protons and Neutrons

276-279

279-281

281-283

 

 

7.4 Positive Ions and Mass Spectrometry

7.5 The Wave Nature of Light

283-284

284-290

 

 

7.6 Photons: Energy by the Quantum

7.7 Bohr's Hydrogen Atom: A Planetary Model

290-295

295-299

 

 

7.8 Wave Mechanics: Matter as Waves

7.9 Quantum Numbers and Atomic Orbitals

299-302

302-309

 

8. Electron Configurations, Atomic Properties and the Periodic Table

8.1 Multielectron Atoms

8.2 An Introduction to Electron Configurations

8.3 The Rules for Electron Configurations

317-318

318-319

319-321

 

 

8.4 Electron Configurations: The Aufbau Principle

8.5 Electron Configurations: Periodic Relationships

321-325

325-331

 

 

8.6 Magnetic Properties: Paired and Unpaired Electrons

8.7 Periodic Atomic Properties of the Elements

332-333

334-343

 

 

8.8 Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids, and Noble Gases

8.9 Explaining the Behavior of the Elements Through Atomic Properties and the Periodic Table

343-347

347-350

 

9. Chemical Bonds

9.1 Chemical Bonds: A Preview

9.2 The Lewis Theory of Chemical Bonding An Overview

9.3 Ionic Bonds and Ionic Crystals

359-360

360-362

362-363

 

 

9.4 Using Lewis Symbols to Represent Ionic Bonding

9.5 Energy Changes in Ionic Compound Formation

363-365

365-368

 

 

9.6 Lewis Structures of Some Simple Molecules

9.7 Polar Covalent Bonds and Electronegativity

368-372

372-375

 

 

9.8 Strategies for Writing Lewis Structures

375-385

 

 

9.9 Molecules that Don't Follow the Octet Rule

9.10 Bond Lengths and Bond Energies

385-390

390-395

 

 

9.11 Alkenes and Alkynes

9.12 Polymers

395-397

397-401

 

10. Bonding Theory and Molecular Structure

10.1 Valence-Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Method

409-419

 

 

10.2 Polar Molecules and Dipole Moments

10.3 Atomic Orbital Overlap

420-425

425-427

 

 

10.4  Hybridization of Atomic Orbitals

427-436

 

 

10.5 Hybrid Orbitals and Multiple Covalent Bonds

436-443

 

 

10.6 Characteristics of Molecular Orbitals

10.7 Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules of the Second-Period Elements

10.8 Bonding in Benzene

10.9 Aromatic Compounds

444-445

445-448

448-449

450-451

 

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