| GENERAL CHEMISTRY I CHEM 1305 |
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SCHEDULE (subject to change as needed)
Wednesday - December 7
Lecture - Test over Gas Laws
Monday - December 5
Lecture - Review for Test over Gas Laws
Quiz -
stoichiometry of gases
Friday - December 2
Lecture - Stoichiometry of Gases
Quiz - idea gas laws
Wednesday - November 30
Lecture - Stoichiometry of Gases
Quiz - General gas laws
Monday - November 28
Lecture - idea Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures
Friday - November 25
Lecture - no class
Wednesday - November 23
Lecture - Test over Solutions
Monday - November 21
Lecture - Review for Test over Solutions
Friday - November 18
Lecture - no class
Wednesday - November 16
Lecture - General Gas Laws
Monday - November 14
Lecture - General Gas Laws
Quiz - stoichiometry and dilutions
Friday - November 11
Lecture - no class
Wednesday - November 9
Lecture - Test over Stoichiometry
Monday - November 7
Lecture - Review for Test over Stoichiometry
Quiz - molarity
Friday - November 4
Lecture - Solutions - stoichiometry
Quiz - percent solution
Wednesday - November 2
Lecture - Solutions - molarity and dilution
Quiz -
limiting reagents and % yield
Monday - October 31
Lecture - Solutions and Percent Solution
Friday - October 28
Lecture - Test over Naming and Writing Formulas
Wednesday - October 26
Lecture - Review for test over writing and naming formulas
Quiz - simple stoichiometry
Monday - October 24
Lecture - Stoichiometry - limiting reagents and % yield
Quiz -
naming ternary compounds
Friday - October 21
Lecture - Stoichiometry
Quiz -
naming binary compounds
Wednesday - October 19
Lecture - Naming ternary compounds
Quiz -
Writing formulas
Monday - October 17
Lecture - Naming binary compounds
Friday - October 14
Lecture - Test over balancing and mass relationships
Wednesday - October 12
Lecture - Review for test over balancing and mass
relationships
Quiz - empirical and molecular formula (quiz
1) (quiz 2)
Monday - October 10
Lecture - Empirical and Molecular Formulas
Quiz - molecular mass and percent composition
Friday - October 7
Lecture - Moles
Quiz -
Acids and balancing equations
Wednesday - October 5
Lecture - Molecular mass, Percent Composition and Moles
Quiz -
Writing Ternary Formulas
Monday - October 3
Lecture - Balancing equations and types of chemical reactions
Quiz - Writing Binary Formulas
Friday - September 30
Lecture - Balancing equations
Quiz -
oxidation numbers, valence
and Chemical bonds
Wednesday - September 28
Lecture - Writing formulas using polyatomics and acids
Monday - September 26
Lecture - Writing binary formulas and calculating oxidation
numbers
Friday - September 23
Lecture - Test over Chapters 1 - 5
Wednesday - September 21
Lecture - Review for test over Chapters 1 - 5
Quiz -
electronic configuration and group names
Monday - September 19
Lecture - Oxidation numbers, chemical bonds and polarity
Quiz -
Subatomic particles, metals, isotopes
Friday - September 16
Lecture - Energy levels, electron configuration, group name and valence
Quiz -
Properties and Changes, Specific Heat, Symbols and
Names of Elements
Wednesday - September 14
Lecture - Structure of the
atom, isotopes atomic and
mass numbers, and ions
Quiz -
density, states of matter and compounds and elements
Monday - September 12
Lecture - Specific heat and metals
Friday - September 9
Lecture - States of matter, Compounds and elements, Symbols,
and Properties of matter
Quiz -
metric/ metric and metric/English conversions and temperature conversions
Wednesday - September 7
Lecture - Density and Specific gravity
Friday - September 2
Lecture - Metric System - English to metric and Temperature
conversions
Wednesday - August 31
Lecture - Mass, and Scientific
Notation, Rounding numbers and Metric System - metric to metric
Monday - August 29
Lecture - review course syllabus, Science and Scientific
Method
COURSE DESCRIPTION
CHEM 1305 General Chemistry I (4-0-3) An introductory chemistry course primarily for allied health science majors or related science majors. Topics include standards for measurements, matter, nomenclature, quantitative composition, equations, atomic theory, bonding, gases, and solution. Prerequisite: MATH 104 or concurrent enrollment. (syllabus)
REQUIRED TEXT/MANUALS
Introduction to Chemistry, Corwin, Prentice Hall, Latest Edition
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Given a number, express the number in scientific notation. Given numbers in scientific notation, multiply, divide, add and subtract them in scientific notation.
Define the conversions between English and Metric measurements for volume mass and length.
Given a measurement in the metric system, convert it to any other related unit in the metric system.
Given a temperature measurement in one scale, convert it to one of the other scales. Given the mass and volume of a substance, calculate its density.
Calculate the volume or mass of a substance, given the specific gravity.
Calculate the mass or volume of substance, given the specific gravity or density of a substance.
Calculate the specific heat of a substance.
Determine physical and chemical properties and changes.
Give the names and symbols of the elements.
Determine states of matter. State the names, symbols, charges and relative masses of the three principle subatomic particles.
Determine the maximum number of electrons that can exist in a given principle energy level.
Determine the atomic number, atomic mass, and number of neutrons, protons and electrons, given sufficient data.
Using a periodic table, write the isotopic notation for various isotopes.
Draw the sublevels in each principle energy level showing order and number of electrons.
Distinguish the differences between isotopes. Predict whether an element is a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid.
Determine the atomic number of an element.
Determine the atomic mass (atomic weight) of an element. Determine the symbol or name of an element.
Given a known reaction, predict the reaction of other elements within the same group.
Determine the oxidation number and valence of selected elements.
Using oxidation numbers of elements, write the chemical formulas of inorganic compounds.
Given a chemical formula, calculate the oxidation numbers.
Give the name or formula for binary compounds which have a metal (fixed) and a nonmetal.
Give the name of a binary compound with a metal (variable) and a nonmetal using the Stock system.
Give the name or formula for a ternary compound which has a metal and a polyatomic ion.
Define how to determine whether a compound is an acid or base.
Identify the parts of an equation.
Balance chemical equations by the inspection method.
Calculate the percent composition of compounds. Determine the atomic (molecular) mass of elements and compounds.
Calculate the percent composition of compounds.
Determine moles, grams, and molecular mass.
Calculate the empirical and molecular formulas of compounds given elemental data.
Given the mass of one reactant or product and the equation, determine the mole-mole ratio, and the resulting masses of the other products and reactants. Determine the limiting reagent in a stoichiometry problem.
Determine percent yield.
Calculate the percent by volume and mass of a solution.
Calculate the molarity of a solution and determine how to prepare one.
Calculate the molarity of a solution and determine how to prepare one.
Calculate the normality of a solution and determine how to prepare one.
Using the dilution formula, show how to prepare new solutions.
Determine pressures, volumes, and temperatures using the General Gas Law.
Calculate partial pressures using Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures (including water vapour).
Using the Ideal Gas Law, determine pressures, volumes, temperatures, moles, grams, and molecular masses of gases.
Perform stoichiometry problems using the gas laws.
COURSE OUTLINE (Outline)
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Measurements
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Periodic classification of elements
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