Spring 2017

Syllabus
(subject to change by the instructor at any time if necessary - this rarely happens)
Approximate associated sections of the text are in parenthesis. You should read these BEFORE class so you come prepared.

Blank lines delimit separate weeks.

27 Jan    What is Energy? (8.1)

30 Jan    The First Law, Work (8.2-8.3)
01 Feb    Heat, Enthalpy and Calorimetry (8.4-8.5)
03 Feb    Standard Enthalpies of Formation and Hess' Law (8.6-8.9)

06 Feb    Burning Fuels, Standard Enthalpies of Combustion (8.9,8.11)
08 Feb    Bond Energies and Reaction Enthalpy (8.10)
10 Feb    Entropy and the Second Law (8.12,16.1-2) Watch these videos before class.

13 Feb    Entropy at the Molecular Level (16.3-16.4). Watch this video before class: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOqaD5tWB0.
15 Feb    Calculating Entropic Changes (16.5-16.6)
17 Feb    Free Energy and Spontaneity (8.13, 16.7-16.9)

20 Feb    Thermodynamics and Phase Changes (10.4)
22 Feb    Exam #1
24 Feb    Calculating Free Energy under different conditions (9.5, 16.10) and the Urey-Miller Experiment. Complete this handout before class.

27 Feb    Liquids, Vapor Pressure and Solutions (10.5, 11.1-11.3)
01 Mar   Solubility and its effect on vapor pressure (11.4-11.6)
03 Mar   Colligative Properties (11.7-11.9)

Spring Break

13 Mar   Membranes: Creating Primordial Cells. Read this paper and Answer these questions in preparation for class discussion.
15 Mar   Rates of Reactions (12.1-12.3)
17 Mar   Integrated Rate Law (12.4-12.8)

20 Mar   Linking Mechanism to Rate Law (12.11-12.13)
22 Mar   How Temperature affects Rates (12.9-12.10)
24 Mar   Catalysis (12.14-12.15)

27 Mar   Free Energy Maps: Kinetics and Thermodynamics
29 Mar   Exam #2
31 Mar   Chemical Equilibrium (13.1-13.4)

03 Apr    Calculations with Equilibrium Constants (13.5-13.6)
05 Apr    Le Chatelier's Principle (13.7-13.11)
07 Apr    Linking Equilibria, Kinetics and Free Energy (16.10-16.11)

10 Apr    Acids, Bases and the pH scale (14.1-14.2, 14.4-14.7)
12 Apr    Weak Acid Equilibria (14.8-14.10)

Spring/Easter Break

19 Apr    Polyprotic Acids and Weak Base Equilibria (14.11-14.14.14)
21 Apr    Factors Affecting Acid Strength (14.3)

24 Apr    Buffer Solutions (15.3-15.4)
26 Apr    How to prepare a Buffer Solution
28 Apr    Neutralization and Titration Curves (15.1, 15.5-15.9)

01 May   Solubility Equilibria and the Common Ion Effect (15.2, 15.10-15.12)
03 May   Lewis Acids and Bases, Complex Ion Equilibria (14.15, 15.12-15.14)
05 May   Exam #3

08 May   Electrochemistry and Galvanic Cells (17.1-17.3)
10 May   Standard Reduction Potentials and the Activity Series (17.4-17.5, 7.8)
12 May   Nernst Equation and Applications of Electrochemistry (17.6-17.8)

15 May   Hess' Law Recap: Formation of Ionic Compounds (3.9)

Final Exam is Wed, May 24, 8-10am
Equations for Final Exam