Course Outline

UNIT TOPIC READING

Course introduction and math review
1 Reaction rates and rate laws 16.1-16.3
Chemical Kinetics Integrated rate laws 16.4
(7-8 hours) Arrhenius model and reaction mechanism 16.5-16.6
Catalysis 16.7
Gas-phase equilibria, Le Chatelier s principle 17.6, 17.1,17.2, 17.4-17.5
ICE tables and equilibrium calculations 17.5
2 Acid‒base equilibria including polyprotic acids and 18.1-18.9, 19.2
Equilibrium salts
(9-10 hours) Common ion effect and buffers 19.1
Acid-Base Titrations 19.2
Solubility and precipitation 4.3, 19.3
Review of electron configurations 23.1
3
Coordination compounds and isomers 23.3
Coordination
Crystal field theory (color and magnetic properties of 23.4
Chemistry
coordination compounds)
(5 hours)
Complex ion equilibria 19.4
First law: energy, heat and work 6.1
4 Enthalpy, bond energies and calorimetry 6.2, 9.4, 6.3
Thermodynamics Hess law and standard enthalpies of formation 6.4-6.6
(7-8 hours) Second and Third Laws: entropy and spontaneity 20.1-20.2
Free energy, work and equilibrium 20.3-20.4
Review of redox reactions, balancing reactions 21.1
Voltaic cells, reduction potentials and cell potentials 21.2, 21.3
5
Free Energy and electrical work 21.4
Electrochemistry
The Nernst equation 21.4
(4-5 hours)
Applications of electrochemistry: batteries, corrosion 21.5-21.7
and electrolysis