Course Information

Materials

  • TEXT: Open Learning Initiative General Chemistry 2. Free – Set up an account. Use this course key: yee-sp23
  • Chem 1B Lab Experiments
  • Safety goggles or safety glasses
  • Calculator

Optional Materials

  • General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts“, Chang, any edition
  • Chemistry“, Open Stax, FREE
  • Any chemistry textbook or website or reference that helps you with this class

Course Description

This course consists of lecture and lab. Hands-on work and group work will be used to help you learn and understand chemistry. Your learning depends on you; you are responsible for your learning. This course is fast-paced and covers a lot of material. Furthermore, each successive topic builds upon previous topics. To maximize your learning of this material, study the assigned chapters and try working  questions/problems at the end of each chapter prior to each class.  This practice allows you to focus on important points in class discussions and ask questions over material you don’t understand. After each class, review your notes and the assigned chapter and try working more questions/problems. When questions arise, please ask!  I am available during office hours or by appointment. In addition, ACCESS Program study sessions will be held at least once per week for related problem-solving practice.

Course Objectives/Skills

  1. Identify organic functional groups, draw skeletal structures, and distinguish between the same compound, isomers, and resonance structures.
  2. Understand organic hydrogenation reactions, oxidation reactions, and reactions that produce esters and amides.
  3. Identify the chemical forces in ionic and molecular solutions.
  4. Predict solution properties based on colligative properties
  5. Understand factors that determine reaction rate and describe reaction rate with rate law, order, rate constant, and activation energy.
  6. Describe reaction mechanisms and relate mechanism to rate law and reaction energy diagram.
  7. Understand equilibrium reactions (equilibrium constant, LeChatelier’s principle, equilibrium calculation).
  8. Apply equilibrium principles to acids and bases
  9. Apply equilibrium principles to acid-base titrations and buffers.
  10. Apply equilibrium principles to insoluble solids.
  11. Predict heat and work in physical and chemical reactions.
  12. Predict whether a reaction occurs using thermodynamics.
  13. Apply oxidation-reduction reaction principles to batteries.
  14. Apply oxidation-reduction reaction principles to electrolytic cells.
  15. Identify radiation types and understand nuclear chemistry reactions.
  16. Understand coordinate covalent bond and structure of coordination compounds (if time permits).
  17. Apply chemistry lab skills, which include the proper use and operation of lab chemicals, equipment, instruments, lab tecniques, and safety procedures, to experiments.

Student Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to apply the course objectives to:

(i) Given information about a substance, a student will be able to apply chemical concepts, laws, and theories to describe and predict chemical phenomena, such as properties and reactivity.

(ii) Given a chemical problem, a student will be able to apply chemical concepts, laws, and theories to formulate a reasonable solution to this problem.

(iii) Given experimental data, a student will be able to analyze the data, calculate results from data, and interpret results to draw rational conclusions.