Spring 2016

Syllabus
(subject to change by the instructor at any time if necessary - this rarely happens)
Approximate associated sections of the text are in parenthesis.

Blank lines delimit separate weeks.

25 Jan    Forms of Energy and the First Law (8.1-8.3)
27 Jan    Work, Heat and Calorimetry (8.3-8.5)
29 Jan    Enthalpy and Hess' Law (8.6-8.9)

01 Feb    Standard Enthalpies of Formation and Combustion (8.9,8.11)
03 Feb    Bond Energies and Reaction Enthalpy (8.10)
05 Feb    Entropy and the Second Law (8.12,16.1-2)

08 Feb    Entropy at the Molecular Level (16.3-16.4)
10 Feb    Calculating Entropic Changes (16.5-16.6)
12 Feb    Free Energy and Spontaneity (8.13, 16.7-16.9)

15 Feb    Calculating Free Energy under different conditions (16.10)
17 Feb    Exam #1
19 Feb    Thermodynamics and Phase Changes (10.4-10.5)

22 Feb    Energetics of Ionic Compound Formation (3.9)
24 Feb    Solutions and Solubility (11.1-11.4)
26 Feb    Colligative Properties (11.5-11.9)

29 Feb    Application: Solutions, Phases and Compartments
02 Mar   Rates of Reactions (12.1-12.3)
04 Mar   Integrated Rate Law (12.4-12.8)

07 Mar   Linking Mechanism to Rate Law (12.11-12.13)
09 Mar   How Temperature affects Rates (12.9-12.10)
11 Mar   Catalysis (12.14-12.15)

14 Mar   Exam #2
16 Mar   Chemical Equilibrium (13.1-13.4)
18 Mar   Calculations with Equilibrium Constants (13.5-13.6)

Spring/Easter Break

30 Mar   Le Chatelier's Principle (13.7-13.11)
01 Apr    Linking Equilibria, Kinetics and Free Energy (16.10-16.11)

04 Apr    Acids, Bases and the pH scale (14.1-14.2, 14.4-14.7)
06 Apr    Weak Acid Equilibria (14.8-14.10)
08 Apr    Polyprotic Acids and Weak Base Equilibria (14.11-14.14.14)

11 Apr    Factors Affecting Acid Strength (14.3)
13 Apr    Exam #3
15 Apr    Buffer Solutions (15.3-15.4)

18 Apr    How to prepare a Buffer Solution
20 Apr    Neutralization and Titration Curves (15.1, 15.5-15.9)
22 Apr    Solubility Equilibria and the Common Ion Effect (15.2, 15.10-15.12)

25 Apr    Lewis Acids and Bases, Complex Ion Equilibria (14.15, 15.12-15.14)
27 Apr    Effect of CO2 on Ocean pH
29 Apr    Cradle of Life: Hydrothermal Vents

02 May   Exam #4
04 May   Electrochemistry and Galvanic Cells (17.1-17.3)
06 May   Standard Reduction Potentials and the Activity Series (17.4-17.5, 7.8)

09 May   Nernst Equation and Applications of Electrochemistry (17.6-17.8)

Final Exam is Mon, May 16, 8-10am
Equations for Final Exam