General Chemistry 101
Spring 2009

 
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TUESDAY

THURSDAY

Exams & Quizzes

LABORATORY

 

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

 
No Lab This Week

1/13 (2)
Chap 1: Dimensional Analysis
Chap 2:
Atomic Theory of Matter; Modern View of Atomic Structure
 

1/15 (3)
Chap 1: At. Wt.; The Periodic Table; Molecules and Molecular Compounds
  Experiment 1
Significant Figures and Density
1/20 (4)
Chap 2:  Ions and Ionic Compounds; Naming Inorganic Compounds
 

1/22 (5)
Chap 3: Chemical Equations; Patterns of Chemical Reactivity; Atomic and Molecular Weights

  Experiment 2
Chromatography I: Paper
1/27 (6)
Chap 3:  The Mole; Empirical Formulas from Analyses
1/29 (7)
Chap 3: Empirical Formulas from Analyses; Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations
  Experiment 3
Formulas and Equations

 Quiz 1
2/3 (8)
Chap 3: Quantitative Information from Balanced Equations; Limiting Reactants 
 
2/5 (9)
Chap 3: Per-cent yield
Review for Exam 1
 Exam 1
2/5
8-9 pm
Experiment 4
Fractional Crystallization
2/10 (10)
Chap 4: General Properties of Aqueous Solutions; Precipitation Reactions; Acid-Base Reactions

 
2/12 (11)
 Chap 4: Concentrations of Solutions; Solution Stoichiometry and Chemical Analysis
  Experiment 5
Stoichiometry: Loss of CO
2/17 (12)
Chap 5: The Nature of Energy; The First Law of Thermodynamics
 
2/19 (13)
Chap 5: Enthalpies of Reaction; Calorimetry
  Experiment 6
Aspirin Synthesis
 
2/24 (14)
Chap 5: Calorimetry; Hess's Law
2/26 (15)
 Chap 5: Enthalpies of Formation
Chap 19: Spontaneous Processes
 
 Experiment 7
 
Lab Practical #1

Quiz 2

3/3 (16)
Chap 19:
 Entropy and the Second Law; A Molecular Interpretation of Entropy
 

3/5 (17)

Review for Exam 2.

Exam 2
3/5
8-9 pm
Experiment 8
Calorimetry
3/10

SPRING BREAK
3/12

SPRING BREAK
 
No Lab This Week
3/17 (18)
Chap 19: Calculation of Entropy Changes; Gibbs Free Energy; Free-Energy and Temperature
 

3/19 (19)
Chap 6: The Wave Nature of Light; Quantized Energy and Photons

Experiment 9
Hess' Law

3/24 (20)
Chap 6: Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom; The Wave Behavior of Matter.
3/26 (21)
Chap 6:
Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Orbitals; Representation of Orbitals; Orbitals in Many Electron Atoms.
 
 
Experiment 10
Exchange Reactions

Quiz 3
 
3/31 (22)
Chap 6: Electron Configurations of Atoms and Ions;
Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table.
4/2 (23)

Review for Exam 3
Exam 3
4/2
8-9 pm
Experiment 11
Unknown Solid Identification

 
4/7 (24)
Chap 7:
Electron Shells & Sizes of Atoms; Ionization Energy; Electron Affinities.

Note
BLB Sections 7.6 - 7.8 to be read outside of class.
 
4/9 (25)
 

NO CLASS

 

Experiment 12
Qualitative Analysis: Group I

4/14 (26)
Chap 8:  Chemical Bonds, Lewis Symbols & the Octet Rule; Ionic Bonding and Sizes of Ions; Covalent Bonding
 
4/16 (27)
Chap 8: Bond Polarity & Electronegativity; Drawing Lewis Structures.


Experiment 13
Atomic Emission

4/21 (28)
Chap 8:
Resonance;
Exceptions to 
the Octet Rule; Strengths of Covalent Bonds

4/23 (29)
Chap 9: Molecular Shapes; VSEPR
 

Experiment 14
Lab Practical #2

Quiz 4