CHE-202 Notes
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Chapters  11121314, 15161819
Exam 1 Key         Exam 2 Key        Exam 3 key      Exam 4 Key
Final Exam Practice:   Questions    Answers
Chapter 11 Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, and Solids

Objectives

Describe the types of intra- / intermolecular forces and be able to state the type expected for a substance knowing its structure.

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Explain and apply the relationship between properties of liquids and intermolecular forces.

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Understand how vapor pressure depends on intermolecular attraction and temperature.

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Extract information from simple phase diagrams

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Explain and apply the relationship between properties of solids and the type of solid (ionic, molecular, metallic, or covalent network) a substance is.

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Calculate density, molar mass, and unit cell dimensions given data on the unit cell of a solid.

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From the heat capacities and enthalpies of state change, be able to calculate the amount of heat to change a substance from one temperature and state to another.


VSEPR Table

Lewis Structure and Polarity  (key)

Molecular Polarity Worksheet

Organic Nomenclature table

 
****Unit Cell Calculations Practice Problems with detailed solutions

Cubic
Face-centered cubic
Body-centered cubic

Nice summary of unit cells (Note: it does have some extra info)
Resources
1-Intro to Intermolecular Forces
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2-Liquids and IMF  
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3-States of Matter and Vapor Pressure 
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4-Solids and IMF   
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5-Phase changes  (heating curves)  
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6-Phase Diagrams  
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IMF flow chart

Chapter 12 Solutions

Objectives

 

Describe the energy changes associated with the formation of a solution -"Like dissolves like!" Identify the intermolecular forces associated with solute-solvent combinations.

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Explain effects of temperature and pressure on solubility. Perform calculations using Henry's Law.

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Define units of concentration, mass percent, ppm, mole fraction, molarity, and molality, and be able to calculate each from appropriate data.

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Be able to convert a concentration from one unit to the other.

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Describe the effect of solute (or solvent) concentration on each colligative property—vapor pressure, boiling point, freezing point, osmotic pressure. Be able to calculate any of these effects from concentration data for electrolyte and nonelectrolyte solutes.

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Calculate the concentration and molar mass of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolyte from its effect on a colligative property.
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Describe the effect of solute (or solvent) concentration on vapor pressure. Be able to calculate this effect
using Raoult's Law

  Resources
Concentration  
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Solution Formation 
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Solubility  
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Colligative Props. - part 1
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Colligative Props. - part 2
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Colloids  
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Chapter 13 Kinetics

Objectives

 

Express the rate of a reaction in terms of changes in the concentration of a reactant or a product per time.

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Explain the meaning of the reaction rate law and the rate law constant. Understand what is meant by order in terms of a reactant as well as the overall order.

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Be able to determine a differential rate law for a reaction from initial rate data. Calculate the rate law constant (including units)  Use the rate law in calulations.

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Be able to determine an integrated rate law for a reaction from experimental data. Calculate the rate law constant (including units) after finding the rate law.  Use the rate law in calculations.

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Explain what is meant by a reaction mechanism and know the meaning of elementary steps, rate-determining step, and intermediate species. Be able to explain and show how a rate law is derived from a certain reaction mechanism.

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Use Collision Theory to explain the effects of reactant concentration, temperature, state of reactants and presence of a catalyst on reaction rate. Draw and explain reaction energy diagrams. Explain graphically the concept of activation energy.

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Understand how temperature affects the rate law constant for a reaction. Use the Arrhenius equation to calculate the effects of temperature and a catalyst on reaction rate

 

In case I am unable to complete and post vodcasts for this chapter, the following video lectures and notes are provided by the MIT open courseware project.

Everything that was covered in class Friday can be found within these 4 videos.

There is a link to the lecture notes for each video. You may want to open this first and scan through to make sure that the lecture covers the content you need.


Course: Principles of Chemical Science

Lecture 31: Rate Laws 

Lecture 32: Nuclear Chemistry and elementary reactions

Lecture 33: Reaction Mechanism

Lecture 34: Temperature and Kinetics

NOTE: If you find this professor's lectures beneficial please let me know. Other Principles of Chemical Science lectures (which include some CHE 201 content)
Resources
Reaction Kinetics
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Reaction Mechanism problems  (answers)
Chapter 14 Equilibrium

Objectives

 

Understand the meaning of dynamic equilibrium. Write the equilibrium expression for any chemical reaction. Understand the meaning of the magnitude of the value of K.

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Calculate Kc or Kp when given appropriate data. Interconvert Kc and Kp.

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Knowing initial concentrations and at least one equilibrium concentration, calculate the value of K
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Knowing the value of K and initial concentrations, calculate equilibrium concentrations.

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Calculate Q, the reaction quotient, to determine if a reaction is at equilibrium and if not, determine its direction.

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Explain how an equilibrium is shifted by stresses (changes in temperature, pressure, or concentration)–Le Chatelier's Principle. Explain how temperature changes the value of K.

 

  Resources
Equilibrium Expressions 
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Equilibrium Calculations
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LeChatlier's Principle
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Solubility Products
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Chapter 15 Acid-Base Equilibria

Objectives

 

List general properties that characterize acidic and basic solutions and the ions responsible. Understand what is meant by strength of an acid or a base. Explain the autoionization of water and write the Kw expression.

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Understand the Brönsted-Lowry Theory and be able to identify conjugate acids and bases. Understand the relationship between the strength of an acid and the strength of its conjugate base; interconvert between Ka and Kb.

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Predict whether the solution of a particular salt will be acidic, basic, or neutral.

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Define an acid and a base in the Lewis sense.

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Understand the relationship between molecular structure and acid strength

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Define pH and be able to interconvert between [H+], [OH], pH, and pOH.

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Given the acid concentration, be able to interconvert between Ka and pH.

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Given the base concentration, be able to interconvert between Kb and pH.

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Calculate the percent ionization from the K
a or the Kb, and vice versa.
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Calculate the pH of a salt solution

 
Additional Vodcasts from other teachers:

Intro to Acids and Bases (Ms. Wolf)

pH calculations - strong acids & bases (long, but she works lots of examples...love Ms. Wolf's accent and enthusiasm)



pH of Salt Solutions (slides are a little difficult to read but prof does a good job with the discussion...better if viewed in Full screen on Real Player)

Resources
Intro to Acids & Bases
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Chapter 16 Acid-Base Equilibria and Solubility

Objectives

 

Understand the application of equilibrium concepts to solution formation. Write the Ksp expression for a salt. Interconvert between solubility and Ksp.

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Predict whether a precipitate will form when two solutions are mixed.

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Calculate the effect of a common ion on the solubility of a slightly soluble salt. Understand the effect of pH on solubility equilibrium.

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Describe how a buffer solution works and how one can be made at a particular pH.

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Calculate the change in pH of a buffer upon the addition of a strong acid or a strong base.

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Distinguish between the various titration curves.

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Calculate the concentration of each species in a solution formed by mixing an acid and a base.

Calculate the pH at any point in an acid-base titration.
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Understand how indicators work and be able to choose an appropriate indicator for a given titration using pH ranges and/or Ka values of the indicators.

  Resources
Applications of Acids and Bases
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Table of potential unknown acids for lab
Chapter 18 Entropy

Objectives

 

Define entropy as it pertains to the second law of thermodynamics.  Predict the sign of the entropy of a given process, and state the third law of thermodynamics.

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Define free energy in terms of enthalpy and entropy, and explain the relationship of the sign of deltaG and the spontaneity of a reaction.

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Calculate deltaS° for a reaction using a table of absolute entropies, S°. Calculate deltaG° for a reaction using a table of deltaGf° for the reactants and products.

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Interconvert deltaG° and K for a reaction.

Calculate the free energy change for a reaction at nonstandard conditions, deltaG, knowing deltaG°, T, and the data needed to calculate Q.
Discussion from MIT Open Courseware Project:

Lecture 17: Entropy and Disorder 
Resources
Entropy Discussion
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Chapter 19 Electrochemistry

Objectives

 

Identify redox reactions, the species oxidized, reduced, the oxidizing agent, and the reducing agent.

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Balance redox reactions by using oxidation number method and half-reactions method.

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Diagram and label electrochemical cells, both voltaic and electrolytic.

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Given electrode potentials, predict if a reaction is spontaneous. Calculate the emf of voltaic cell given electrode potentials.

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Calculate the cell potential for a "concentration Cell"

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Be able to calculate any variable in the Nernst equation given the others.

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 Calculate the maximum electrical work performed by a voltaic cell. Interconvert E°, deltaG°, and K for a redox reaction.

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Calculate time, current, or amount of a substance produced by electrolysis, given the other two.


  Resources
Electrochemistry
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Handout

Electrochemistry Practice Worksheet 1
Worksheet 2
Intro to Organic Nomenclature and Isomers

Organic Intro
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Functional Groups Handout

Practice Worksheets

IN-CLASS

 

 10.4        (ans)

10.7       (ans)

 

  Functional group (WS&ans)

Isomers (WS&ans)

  Alkanes  (WS&ans)

Alkenes (WS&ans)

Alkynes (WS&ans)

Alcohol

(WS & ans)

 Carboxylic acids (WS&ans)