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Welcome to the AP Chemistry/Chemistry II wiki page. This site is always under construction, but where available, there are links to class notes, web sites, demos, etc.

An asterisk (*) denotes material not covered in the Chemistry II course.

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Unit 1: Solutions (after a review of reaction types, mole conversions and stoichiometry)
 * 1) balancing equations, salt dissociations and the [|mole ratio]
 * 2) notes on solutions
 * 3) calculating solution concentrations
 * 4) performing dilutions
 * 5) spectrophotometry and Beer's Law
 * 6) colligiative properties of solutions

Unit 2: Solution Stoichiometry
 * 1) acid-base titrations
 * 2) precipitate titrations
 * 3) Acid rain treatment

Unit 3: Acid-Base Chemistry
 * 1) Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis definitions of acids, bases
 * 2) identification of strong acids and strong bases
 * 3) writing acid or base hydrolysis equations for:
 * monoprotic acids
 * diprotic acids
 * triprotic acids
 * amines (bases)
 * 1) identifying conjugate acids and conjugate bases
 * 2) the pH scale and the origin of 7 as neutral pH
 * 3) calculating pH, pOH for acids and bases

Unit 4: Equilibrium
 * 1) describing the equilibrium state
 * 2) writing equilibrium constant expressions for:
 * heterogeneous equilibria
 * solubility constant expression
 * weak acids or bases
 * 1) calculating equilibrium constants or species concentrations at equilibrium conditions
 * 2) manipulation of the equilibrium constant and the chemical equation
 * reversing reaction equations
 * multiplying by coefficients
 * 1) LeChatelier's Principle:
 * the blue bottle
 * the color-oscillator

Unit 5: The ICE equation
 * 1) setting up an ICE (initial, change, equilibrium) equation
 * 2) determining species concentrations for:
 * slightly soluble solids
 * weak acid (or base) pH
 * common ion effect
 * buffers
 * 1) determination of an acid dissociation constant via titration (lab)

Unit 6: Electrochemistry
 * 1) Determining the oxidation number of elements in compounds
 * 2) Identifying oxidation and reduction half-reactions
 * 3) Construction of galvanic cells
 * 4) Calculating cell potentials
 * 5) Using the Nernst equation

Unit 7: Kinetics
 * 1) defining terms: rate constant, reaction order, half-life
 * 2) rate laws; reactant orders; rate constants
 * 3) the iodine clock reaction

Unit 8: Thermochemistry
 * 1) calorimetry and heat exchange processes
 * 2) thermochemistry- determining changes in enthalpy for chemical equations using:
 * enthalpy of formation data
 * bond energy data using Lewis diagrams

Unit 9: Thermodynamics
 * 1) three laws of thermodynamics:
 * First Law: conservation of energy
 * Second Law: defining spontaneity
 * Third Law: defining entropy
 * 1) Hess's Law
 * 2) using the thermodynamic equation: dG = dH - TdS

Unit 10: Molecular Modeling
 * 1) electron configurations and PES diagrams
 * 2) Lewis diagrams
 * 3) Formal charges
 * 4) Resonance vs. Isomerism
 * 5) VSEPR and 3D models
 * 6) Polarity and Intermolecular forces - relation to physical properties

Unit 11: Solid State Chemistry
 * 1) Classification of solids
 * 2) Ionic Solids: lattice strength
 * 3) Unit cells: 3 types of cubic unit cells
 * 4) Density calculations
 * 5) [|WebMinerals] - crystal structures web site
 * 6) American Mineralogist structure search>
 * 7) Crystallography Open Database
 * 8) Water: [[file:ice_data.txt]]
 * 9) Carbon dioxide: [[file:co2-cif.txt]]
 * 10) methane hydrate:[[file:methane-hydrate-cif2.txt]]
 * 11) Galena: [[file:PbS-Galena.txt]]
 * 12) Celestine: [[file:celestine-min.txt]]

Unit 12: Organic Chemistry*
 * 1) Carbon-based molecules: structure
 * 2) Basic nomenclature
 * 3) Organic chemistry reactions


 * time permitting