General Chemistry 101
Fall 2009

 
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Exams & Quizzes

LABORATORY

 

8/19 (1)
Course Syllabus;
Chap 1:
Classification of Matter; Properties of Matter
 

 
No Lab This Week

8/24 (2)
Chap 1: Dimensional Analysis
Chap 2:
Atomic Theory of Matter; Modern View of Atomic Structure
 

8/26 (3)
Chap 1: At. Wt.; The Periodic Table; Molecules and Molecular Compounds
Chap 2:  Ions and Ionic Compounds

  Experiment 1
Significant Figures and Density
8/31 (4)
Chap 2: Naming Inorganic Compounds
Chap 3: Chemical Equations;

9/2 (5)
Chap 3: Patterns of Chemical Reactivity; Atomic and Molecular Weights; the Mole
 

  Experiment 2
Chromatography I: Paper


Quiz 1 (in lab)

9/7 (6)

LABOR DAY
 

9/9 (7)
Chap 3: Empirical Formulas

Review for Exam
 
Exam 1
9/10
8-9 pm
Experiment 3
Formulas and Equations

 
9/14 (8)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations; Limiting Reactants 
 
9/16 (9)
Chap 3: Limiting Reactants; Per-cent yield
 
  Experiment 4
Fractional Crystallization
9/21 (10)
Chap 4: General Properties of Aqueous Solutions; Precipitation Reactions; Acid-Base Reactions

 
9/23 (11)
 Chap 4: Concentrations of Solutions; Solution Stoichiometry and Chemical Analysis
  Experiment 5
Stoichiometry: Loss of CO
9/28 (12)
Chap 5: The Nature of Energy; The First Law of Thermodynamics
 
9/30 (13)
Chap 5: Enthalpies of Reaction; Calorimetry
  Experiment 6

Lab Practical #1

Quiz 2
(in lecture)
 
10/5

FALL BREAK
10/7 (14)

Review for Exam
 
 Exam 2
10/8
8-9 pm

No Lab This Week



 
10/12 (15)
Chap 5: Hess's Law; Enthalpies of Formation
 
10/14 (16)
Chap 19: Spontaneous Processes; Entropy and the Second Law
 
  Experiment 7
Calorimetry
10/19 (17)
Chap 19: ; A Molecular Interpretation of Entropy; Calculation of Entropy Changes; Gibbs Free Energy;
 
10/21 (18)
Chap 19: Free-Energy and Temperature.
Chap 6: The Wave Nature of Light; Quantized Energy and Photons; Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom;
  Experiment 8
Hess's Law

10/26 (19)
Chap 6: Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom; The Wave Behavior of Matter; .Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals;
 
10/28 (20)
Chap 6:
Representation of Orbitals. Orbitals in Many Electron Atoms;
Electron Configurations of Atoms and Ions.
  Experiment 9
Exchange Reactions

Quiz 3 (in lab)
11/2 (21)
Chap 6:
Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.
11/4 (22)


Review for Exam
 Exam 3
11/5
8-9 pm
Experiment 10
Unknown Solid Identification



11/9 (23)
Chap 7: Electron Shells & Sizes of Atoms; Ionization Energy; Electron Affinities.
Note
BLB Sections 7.6 - 7.8 to be read outside of class.

 
11/11 (24)
 Chap 8:  Chemical Bonds, Lewis Symbols & the Octet Rule; Ionic Bonding and Sizes of Ions; Covalent Bonding
 

Experiment 11
Atomic Emission

11/16 (25)
Chap 8: Bond Polarity & Electronegativity; Drawing Lewis Structures;
11/18 (26)
Chap 8:Drawing Lewis Structures; Resonance;
Exceptions to Octet Rule. 

 
  Experiment 12

Lab Practical #2

 
11/23 (27)
Chap 8:
Strengths of Covalent Bonds
.
Chap 9: Molecular Shapes.
11/25

THANKSGIVING
 
No Lab This Week

Quiz 4
(in lecture)
 

11/30 (28)
Chap 9: VSEPR

12/2 (29)
Chap 9: VSEPR

 
 


No Lab This Week