General Chemistry 101
Spring 2009

 
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MONDAY

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Exams &
Quizzes

FRIDAY

LABORATORY

 

1/7 (1)
Course syllabus;
Chap 1:
Classification of Matter

 

1/9 (2)
Chap 1: Classification of Matter; Properties of Matter
 


No Lab This Week

1/12 (3)
Chap 1: Dimensional Analysis; Chap 2: Atomic Theory of Matter

1/14 (4)
Chap 2: Modern View of Atomic Structure; Atomic Weights
 
1/16 (5)
Chap 2: The Periodic Table; Molecules and Molecular Compounds

Experiment 1
Significant Figures and Density
1/19

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
 

1/21 (6)
Chap 2: Ions and Ionic Compounds; Naming Inorganic Compounds

 
1/23 (7)
Chap 3: Chemical Equations; Patterns of Chemical Reactivity; Atomic and Molecular Weights
 
Experiment 2
Chromatography I: Paper

 
1/26 (8)
Chap 3:
The Mole
1/28 (9)
Chap 3: Empirical Formulas from Analyses
 
1/30 (10)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
Experiment 3
Formulas and Equations


Quiz 1

2/2 (11)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
2/4 (12)
Review for Exam 1
Exam 1
 2/5
8-9 pm
2/6 (13)
Chap 3: 
Limiting Reactants; Percent Yield
 
Experiment 4
Fractional Crystallization
2/9 (14)
Chap 4: General Properties of Aqueous Solutions; Precipitation Reactions
2/11 (15)
Chap 4: Precipitation Reactions; Acid-Base Reactions
 
2/13 (16)
Chap 4: Concentrations of Solutions; Solution Stoichiometry and Chemical Analysis

 
Experiment 5
Stoichiometry: Loss of CO
2/16 (17)
Chap 5: The Nature of Energy
2/18 (18)
Chap 5: The First Law of Thermodynamics
 
2/20 (19)
Chap 5: Enthalpy; Enthalpies of Reaction
Experiment 6
Aspirin Synthesis


 
2/23 (20)
Chap 5: Calorimetry

 
2/25 (21)
Chap 5: Hess's Law

 
2/27 (22)
Chap 5:
Enthalpies of Formation
Experiment 7
Lab Practical #1

Quiz 2
 
3/2 (23)
Chap 19:
Spontaneous Processes; Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
 
3/4 (24)
Review for Exam 2
Exam 2
 3/5
8-9 pm
3/6 (25)
Chap 19:
A Molecular Interpretation of Entropy
Experiment 8
Calorimetry

3/9

SPRING BREAK
 

3/11
 
SPRING BREAK
 
 
3/13
 
SPRING BREAK
 


No Lab This Week
 
3/16 (26)
Chap 19: Calculation of Entropy Changes
3/18 (27)
Chap 19
: Gibbs Free Energy; Free-Energy and Temperature

 

3/20 (28)
Chap 6:  The Wave Nature of Light; Quantized Energy and Photons


Experiment 9
Hess' Law

3/23 (29)
Chap 6: Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom; The Wave Behavior of Matter
3/25 (30)
Chap 6: Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals; Representation of Orbitals
 
 
3/27 (31)
Chap 6: Orbitals in Many-Electron Atoms; Electron Configurations
Experiment 10
Exchange Reactions
 
Quiz 3
 
3/30 (32)
Chap 6: Electron Configurations of Atoms and Ions
4/1 (33)
Review for Exam 3
Exam 3
 4/2
8-9 pm
4/3 (34)
Chap 7: Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table
Experiment 11
 Unknown Solid Identification



4/6 (35)
 Chap 7: Electron Shells & Sizes of Atoms; Ionization Energy; Electron Affinities
 
BLB Sections 7.6 - 7.8 to be read outside of class.
 
4/8 (36)
Chap 8: Chemical Bonds, Lewis Symbols & the Octet Rule; Ionic Bonding and Sizes of Ions
 
4/10

NO CLASS

Experiment 12 Qualitative Analysis: Group I

 

4/13 (37)
Chap 8: Covalent Bonding; Bond Polarity & Electronegativity
4/15 (38)
Chap 8:
Drawing Lewis Structures


 
4/17 (39)
Chap 8: Drawing Lewis Structures; Resonance; Exceptions to the Octet Rule
 


Experiment 13
Atomic Emission



4/20 (40)
Chap 8:
Strengths of Covalent Bonds; Chap 9: Molecular Shapes
4/22(41)
Chap 9:
VSEPR
  4/24 (42)
Chap 9: VSEPR
Experiment 14
Lab Practical #2

Quiz 4

 

4/27 (43)
Review for Exam 4