General Chemistry 101
Fall 2009

 
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Exams &
Quizzes

FRIDAY

LABORATORY

 

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

 

8/21 (2)
Chap 1: Classification of Matter; Properties of Matter
 


No Lab This Week

8/24 (3)
Chap 1: Dimensional Analysis;
Chap 2:
Atomic Theory of Matter

8/26 (4)
Chap 2: Modern View of Atomic Structure; Atomic Weights
(Last day to drop or add a course)
 
  8/28 (5)
Chap 2: The Periodic Table; Molecules and Molecular Compounds
Experiment 1
Significant Figures and Density
8/31 (6)
Chap 2: Ions and Ionic Compounds; Naming Inorganic Compounds
 

9/2 (7)
Chap 2:  Naming Inorganic Compounds
Chap 3:
Chemical Equations; Patterns of Chemical Reactivity
 

 

9/4 (8)
Chap 3: Atomic and Molecular Weights; The Mole

Experiment 2
Chromatography I: Paper

Quiz 1 (in lab)
9/7

LABOR DAY
9/9 (9)

Review for Exam
Exam 1
9/10
8-9 pm
9/11 (10)
Chap 3: The Mole; Empirical Formulas
 
Experiment 3
Formulas and Equations



9/14 (11)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
9/16 (12)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
  9/18 (13)
Chap 3:  Limiting Reactants; Percent Yield
 
Experiment 4
Fractional Crystallization
9/21 (14)
Chap 4: General Properties of Aqueous Solutions; Precipitation Reactions
9/23 (15)
Chap 4: Precipitation Reactions; Acid-Base Reactions
  9/25 (16)
Chap 4: Concentrations of Solutions; Solution Stoichiometry and Chemical Analysis
 
Experiment 5
Stoichiometry: Loss of CO
9/28 (17)
Chap 5: The Nature of Energy; First Law of Thermodynamics
9/30 (18)
Chap 5: The First Law of Thermodynamics; Enthalpy; Enthalpies of Reaction
  10/2 (19)
Chap 5: Heat Capacity and Calorimetry
Experiment 6

Lab Practical #1

Quiz 2
(in lecture)
 
10/5

FALL BREAK
 
10/7 (20)
Review for Exam 
Exam 2
10/8
8-9 pm
10/9 (21)
Chap 5: Hess's Law

No Lab This Week



 
10/12 (22)
Chap 5: Enthalpies of Formation
Chap 19:
Spontaneous Processes
10/14 (23)
Chap 19: Spontaneous Processes; Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  10/16 (24)
Chap 19: A Molecular Interpretation of Entropy; Calculation of Entropy Changes
 
Experiment 7
Calorimetry
10/19 (25)
Chap 19: Gibbs Free Energy; Free-Energy and Temperature
 
10/21 (26)
Chap 6:  The Wave Nature of Light; Quantized Energy and Photons
  10/23 (27)
Chap 6: Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom; The Wave Behavior of Matter
 
Experiment 8
Hess's Law

10/26 (28)
Chap 6: Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals; Representation of Orbitals
 
10/28 (29)
Chap 6: Representation of Orbitals; Orbitals in Many-Electron Atoms
  10/30 (30)
Chap 6: Electron Configurations of Atoms and Ions
 
Experiment 9
Exchange Reactions

Quiz 3 (in lab)

11/2 (31)
Chap 7: Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table
11/4 (32)
Review for Exam
Exam 3
11/5
8-9 pm
11/6 (33)
Chap 7: The Periodic Table; Effective Nuclear Charge; Electron Shells & Sizes of Atoms
 
Experiment 10
Unknown Solid Identification


11/9 (34)
 Chap 7: Ionization Energy; Electron Affinities
BLB Sections 7.6 - 7.8 to be read outside of class.
 
11/11 (35)
Chap 8: Chemical Bonds, Lewis Symbols & the Octet Rule; Ionic Bonding and Sizes of Ions
  11/13 (36)
Chap 8: Ionic Bonding and Sizes of Ions; Covalent Bonding

Experiment 11
Atomic Emission

11/16 (37)
Chap 8: Covalent Bonding; Bond Polarity & Electronegativity
11/18 (38)
Chap 8: Drawing Lewis Structures
 
  11/20 (39)
Chap 8: Resonance; Exceptions to the Octet Rule
 
 Experiment 12

  Lab Practical #2


 
11/23 (40)
Chap 8:
Strengths of Covalent Bonds; Chap 9: Molecular Shapes
 
11/25
 
THANKSGIVING
  11/27

THANKSGIVING


No Lab This Week

Quiz 4
(in lecture)
 

11/30 (41)
Chap 9: VSEPR
12/2 (42)
Chap 9: VSEPR
   
No Lab This Week