Chemistry+I+EC

Unit 1: Introduction and Laboratory Safety
 * 1) Course introduction : fields and uses for chemistry
 * 2) Classroom tour of safety devices
 * 3) Review of [|Rules], [|Safety Contract]
 * 4) General Equipment usage and care
 * 5) Laboratory exercises (S11.A.2.1.1, S11.A.2.1.2, S11.A.2.1.3, S11.A.2.1.4, S11.A.2.1.5, S11.A.2.2.1, S11.2.2.2)

Unit 2: History of Chemistry
 * 1) Ancient developments in chemistry
 * 2) Classification of matter (CHEM.A.1.2.2)
 * 3) physical versus chemical properties (S11.A.1.1.5, CHEM.A.1.1.1, CHEM.A.1.1.2)
 * 4) Discovery of metals and alloys : properties of metals and nonmetals
 * 5) Greek philosophers to the end of Alchemy
 * 6) The Scientific Method (S11.A.1.1.1, S11.A.1.1.2, S11.A.1.1.3)

Unit 3: Measurement and Uncertainty
 * 1) base units and prefixes
 * 2) metric system conversions
 * 3) English-metric conversions
 * 4) accuracy versus precision (S11.A.2.2.2)
 * 5) proper measurement
 * 6) significant figures (CHEM.A.1.1.3)
 * 7) calculations using significant figures

Unit 4: Gases (CHEM.B.2.1.4)
 * 1) Phlogiston Theory
 * 2) the Kinetic Molecular Theory
 * 3) pressure and temperature units, conversions
 * 4) Boyle's, Charles' and Avogadro's Laws
 * 5) the Ideal Gas Law
 * 6) Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Unit 5: Discovery of Atomic Structure (CHEM.A.2.1.1, S11.A.3.2.1, S11.A.3.2.2, S11.A.3.2.3, S11.A.3.3.1, S11.A.1.1.4, S11.A.2.2.2)
 * 1) [|Dalton's] Atomic Theory ( [|Democritus] was first!) (CHEM.B.1.2.2)
 * 2) Discovering electricity, radiation, and isotopes
 * 3) J. J. Thomson and his [|CRT], [|plum pudding model]
 * 4) Rutherford and his [|gold foil experiment]
 * 5) Modern atomic symbols (CHEM.A.2.1.2)
 * 6) Bohr and his planetary model, emission theory (CHEM.A.2.2.4, S11.C.2.1.1)
 * 7) Absorption of electromagnetic radiation: ozone and greenhouse gases

Unit 6: Radioactivity
 * 1) A brief history
 * 2) sources of, and naturally occuring radioisotopes; three types of radiation
 * 3) alpha particle decay
 * 4) half-life
 * 5) [|radon detection]
 * 6) nuclear power and its safety: [|Chernobyl] and [|Three Mile Island] (also at [|wikipedia] )

Unit 7: The Electronic Structure of the Elements
 * 1) the wave-particle theory and quantization
 * energy levels, types of sublevels, orbital shapes, and electron spin
 * how to write an electron address (CHEM.A.2.2.1)
 * 1) predictions using electronic structure (the Octet Rule): (CHEM.A.2.2.2, CHEM.A.2.2.3)
 * ionic charge
 * chemical activity
 * covalent bonding

Unit 8: Bond Types and Nomenclature of Compounds
 * 1) bond polarity and physical properties (CHEM.B.1.3.1, CHEM.B.1.3.2)
 * 2) Lavoisier and his [|introduction to nomenclature]
 * ionic compound nomenclature (CHEM.A.1.1.5)
 * covalent compound nomenclature (CHEM.A.1.1.5)

Unit 9: Molecular Modeling (CHEM.B.1.3.3, CHEM.B.1.4.1, S11.3.3.1)
 * 1) Lewis diagrams (CHEM.B.1.4.2)
 * 2) Formal charges
 * 3) Resonance vs. Isomerism
 * 4) VSEPR and 3D models
 * 5) Polarity and intermolecular forces - relation to physical properties (CHEM.A.1.1.4, CHEM.A.1.2.1, CHEM.A1.2.3, CHEM.A1.2.5)

Unit 10: Chemical Formulas and the mole unit
 * 1) formula weights
 * 2) percent composition (CHEM.B.1.2.3)
 * 3) empirical formulas (CHEM.B.1.2.1)
 * 4) the mole: Avogadro's Number
 * 5) mass to mole to number of particle conversions (CHEM.B.1.1.1)
 * 6) solution concentrations (CHEM.A.1.2.4)

Unit 11: Periodicity (S11.A.3.3.2)
 * 1) Mendeleev and his [|organization of the elements]
 * 2) Periodic Trends (CHEM.A.2.3.1, CHEM.A.2.3.2)
 * chemical activity
 * electronegativity
 * atomic radius
 * ionization energy and electron affinity

Unit 12: Chemical Reactions (CHEM.B.2.1.3)
 * 1) how to write and balance a chemical equation (CHEM.B.2.1.5)
 * 2) types of chemical reactions:
 * combustion reactions
 * acid-base reactions
 * precipitate reactions
 * oxidation-reduction reactions
 * synthesis and decomposition reactions
 * 1) predicting products of chemical reactions (CHEM.B.2.2.2)
 * 2) predicting energy changes in chemical reactions (S11.C.2.1.2, S11.C.2.1.3)
 * 3) predicting phases of products: solubility rules
 * 4) Equilibrium and Le Chatelier’s Principle (S11.A.1.3.2, S11.A.3.1.2)

Unit 13: Stoichiometry (CHEM.B.2.1.2, S11.A.3.1.3)
 * 1) mole ratios in chemical equations
 * 2) using mass conversions with the mole ratio
 * 3) using stoichiometry to determine:
 * theoretical yields (thus percent yields)
 * limiting reactants (thus excess reactants) (CHEM.B.2.1.1)
 * 1) solution and gas stoichiometry (CHEM.B.2.2.1)
 * 2) practice problems