Lecture Outlines & Supporting Material:
09/02: Intro: atomic- & macro-scale, energy, activities of
science
09/04: Syllabus; state of matter; KMT; het. & homogen.
mixtures
09/09: Chemical calculation rules; Greek pre-history of the
atom
09/11: Alchemy, Boyle, Dalton, Thomson's cathode rays
& "plum pudding" atomic model
09/16:
QUIZ 1; experiments discovering nucleus and electron
charge, formation of the modern atomic model
09/18:
mass spectrometer; atomic & mass numbers, isotopic
abundance, Avogadro's number
09/23:
atom/mole/mass calculations, energy principles &
equations, light as particle and wave
09/30:
light as wave & particle: energy vs. wavelength &
frequency; photoelectron effect; electron orbits
"quantized"
10/02:
DeBroglie: electrons as waves; calculations of
transition energies; Heisenberg and probability
10/07:
calculations with quantized energy changes in atoms;
orbitals NOT orbits; orbital energy & electron "nodes"
10/09:
quantum numbers: filling orbitals (ENERGY!) for
multi-electron atoms; different types of electron
configurations
10/14:
QUIZ 2; electron configuration review & exceptions;
inner, core, and valence electrons defined
10/16:
electron configuration of ions; periodic trends:
effective nuclear charge, atomic radius, ionization
energy
10/21:
quiz 2 postmortem; periodic trends (ionization, electron
affinity) and exceptions in IE and EA due to e-e
repulsion
10/23:
periodic trends in ionic radius; properties of metals &
non-metals; energy in formation of ionic compounds
10/28:
QUIZ 3 (& 2 repair); lattice energy in ionic compounds:
effect of ion charge and radius, effect on melting point
10/30:
ions in solution: solute, solvent, solution, solvation,
dissociation, dissolution, precipitation; solubility
rules
11/04:
forming ionic compounds from ions; writing molecular
formulas; ionic and acid nomenclature
11/11:
nomenclature continued; polyatomic ion nomenclature;
strong acids; predicting products of reactions
11/13:
application of nomenclature & reaction types: balancing
molecular, total ionic and net ionic reactions
11/18:
QUIZ 4; conversions between mass & moles, calculations
between solutions and moles (molarity)
11/20:
MORE solution calculations; ionic vs. molecular;
fundamentals of covalent bonds & nomenclature
Stoichiometry "boot camp"
11/25: MORE
stoichiometry problems; Lewis dot model of covalent
bonding: diatomic rules & electronegativity
12/02: full Lewis dot model
of covalent bonding: multiple bonds, non-octet
molecules, and
formal charge calculations
12/09: Lewis organic
compounds, resonance, radicals; VSEPR revisited; bond
dipoles & molecular dipoles
12/11: from molecular
dipoles to intermolecular forces: the macroscale
properties of covalent molecules
