Table of Contents: CHEM 201

• Introduction: Chemistry of the lab

  • The Scientific Method
  • Domains of Chemistry
• Matter

  • Types of Matter
  • Mass versus Weight
  • Law of Conservation of Mass
  • Classifying Matter
• Properties of Matter

  • Physical Change
  • Chemical Change
  • Extensive & Intensive properties
• Measurements

  • Measurements Overview
  • SI Units
  • Derived SI Units
• Measurement Uncertainty and Significant Figures

  • Uncertainty in Measurements
  • Accuracy and Precision

    • Accuracy and Precision
    • Outliers in Data Sets
  • Significant Figures

    • Significant Figures
    • Significant Figures: Rules for Rounding
    • Significant Figures in Adding or Subtracting
    • Significant Figures in Multiplication and Division
    • Significant Figures in Logarithms
  • Sources of Error in the Lab
• Scientific Analysis in Lab Reports

  • Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Statements
• Safety in the Laboratory

  • Where to find safety information
  • WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System)
  • Best Practices in the Laboratory
  • Review Videos

• The Periodic Table
• Chemical Symbols
• Anatomy of an Atom

  • Atomic Structure
  • History of the atom
  • Isotopes
  • Atomic Mass (AMU)
• Atom versus Compound

  • Difference between an atom and a compound/molecule
  • Polyatomic ions
  • Naming inorganic compounds
  • Ionic compounds
  • Covalent compounds
  • Chemical formula
• The Mole

  • Formula Mass
  • The Mole

• Solutions and Dilutions (Interactive tutorial)
• Other units of concentration

  • Mass percent (%w/w)
  • Volume percent (%v/v)
  • Mass-Volume percent (%w/v)
  • PPM (parts per million) & PPB (parts per billion)

• Balancing Equations

  • How to Balance Chemical Equations
  • Additional Information about equations
  • Equations for Ionic Reactions
  • Balancing Redox Equations (coming soon)
  • Summary & more Practice
• Stoichiometric ratio / stoichiometric factor
• Reaction Yields

• Electromagnetic Energy

  • Electromagnetic Energy
  • Waves
  • Standing Waves (Stationary Waves)
  • Blackbody Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
  • The Photoelectric Effect
  • Line Spectra
  • Summary
• The Bohr Model

  • The Bohr Model
• Development of Quantum Theory

  • Development of Quantum Theory Intro
  • Behaviour in the Microscopic World
  • Quantum-Mechanical Model of an Atom
  • Understanding Quantum Theory of Electrons in Atoms
  • Pauli Exclusion Principle
• Electronic Configurations

  • Intro
  • Orbital Energies and Atomic Structure
  • Electron configurations of Atoms
  • Electron Configurations of Ions
• Periodic Properties

  • Introduction to Periodic Properties
  • Effective Nuclear Charge (Z_eff)
  • Variation in Covalent Radius
  • Variation in Ionic Radius
  • Variation in Ionization Energies
  • Successive Ionization Energies
  • Variations in Electron Affinities

• Ionic and Covalent bonding

  • Electronegativity
  • Electronegativity and bond type
  • Ionic Bonding
  • Covalent Bonding
  • Ionic and Covalent Bond Strength and Bond length
• Lewis Structures

  • Lewis Symbols and Structures
  • Exceptions to the Octet Rule
• “Curly Arrow” Notation

  • Curved/Curly Arrows introduction (arrow pushing)
• Resonance Structures

  • What is a Resonance Structure?
  • Equivalent and Non-Equivalent Resonance Structures
• Introduction to Reaction mechanisms

  • Introduction to Reaction mechanisms

• VSEPR

  • VSEPR Theory
  • Electron-Pair Geometry
  • Electron-Pair Geometry VS. Molecular Shape
  • Predicting Electron-Pair Geometry and Molecular Shape
  • Molecular Shape for Multicentered Molecules
• Isomers

  • Isomers
• Molecular Polarity

  • Electronegativity
  • Electronegativity and Bond Dipoles
  • Molecular Polarity and Dipole moments

The following website is a great resource for learning the basics of naming organic molecules.

• Valence Bond Theory

  • Valence Bond Theory
• Hybrid Atomic Orbitals

  • Hybrid Atomic Orbitals
  • sp Hybridization
  • sp² Hybridization
  • sp³ Hybridization
  • sp³d and sp³d² Hybridization
  • Assignment of Hybrid Orbitals to Central Atoms
  • Hybrid Atomic Orbitals Summary
• Multiple Bonds

  • Multiple Bonds
  • Multiple Bonds Summary and Practice Questions

• Intermolecular forces (IMFs)

  • Overview of Intermolecular forces (Van der Waals forces)
  • Induced dipole-induced dipole (London Dispersion forces)
  • Dipole-Dipole Interactions
  • Hydrogen bonding interactions
  • Summary of IMFs
• Properties of Liquids (interactions of IMFs in the liquid state)

  • Overview