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Summer 2001
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Daily Schedule (Updated Daily)... Updated ... Monday, December 30, 2013

Exam III: Thursday, August 23rd, in-class.  

Reminder, I will not be on campus August 24-28.

Wednesday, August 22
  • Wrap-up
  • Exam III Announcements
  • Review
Tuesday, August 21
Material:   Ch-13     IMF's ... Dipole-Dipole ... H-Bonding
   » Dipole-Dipole ... H-Bonding 
  
» B.P. Trends 
  
» IMF Summary 
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Phase Diagrams »  Due: August 21 ... Final One!!!!!!!!
Monday, August 20
Material:   Ch-13   13.2
 
13.3
 
 
13.7
  Some Unusual Properties of Water
   » Structure of Ice 
Properties of Liquids
   » Heating Water in a Rigid Container 
  
» Cooling Water in a Rigid Container 
Phase Diagrams
   » Water 
  
» Carbon Dioxide 
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Effect of Concentration on E »  Due: August 20
Friday, August 17
Material:   Ch-21   21.5
21.6
 
 
 
21.7
  Non Standard Conditions
Batteries
   » Dry Cell 
  
» Mercury Battery 
  
» Lead Storage Battery 
Corrosion
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Electrochemical Cells »  Due: August 17
  » Using Cell Potentials »  Due: August 18
  » Eo and Gibbs Free Energy»  Due: August 17
Thursday, August 16
Material:   Ch-21   21.4
 
21.5
  Using Standard Potentials
   » Reduction Potentials 
Non Standard Conditions
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Gibbs Free Energy »  Due: August 16
  » Gibbs Free Energy and K »  Due: August 16
  » delta G non-standard; work »  Due: August 16
Wednesday, August 15
Material:   Ch-21   21.1
21.2
 
21.3
  Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Voltaic Cells
   » Voltaic Cell 
Electrochemical Cell Potentials
   » Standard Hydrogen Electrode 
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Entropy »  Due: August 15
  » Entropy and the Second Law »  Due: August 15
Tuesday, August 14
Material:   Ch-20   20.4   Gibbs Energy and the Equilibrium Constant
  
» Product/Reactant Favored and Temp 
Some Sample Problems.
Assignments:            
Owl:  
Monday, August 13
Material:   Ch-20   20.2
20.3
  Entropy
Gibbs Energy
   » Enthalpy Vs Entropy
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Entropy »  Due: August 15
  »
Entropy and the Second Law »  Due: August 15
Thursday, August 9
Material:   Ch-20   20.2   Thermodynamics v Kinetics.
  Introduction to Entropy
  
» Some Entropy Values
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Solubility: Ksp Calcs »  Due: August 9
  » Solubility: [ion], mass, volume »  Due: August 9
  » Solubility: Common Ion, who ppt first. »  Due: August 9
Wednesday, August 8
Material:   Ch-19   19.5
19.6
19.7
  Predicting Precipitation Reactions
Making Use of The Common Ion Effect
Ksp .. All is not what it seems!
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Acid Base: Discovery: Buffer pH »  Due: August 8
  » Acid Base: Buffers Qualitative »  Due: August 8
  » Acid Base: Buffer Calcs »  Due: August 8
  » Acid Base: Buffer + Acid/Base »  Due: August 8
Tuesday, August 7
Material:   Ch-19   19.1
19.2
19.4
  Solubility of Salts
Solubility Product (Ksp)
Estimating Solubility
Assignments:            
Owl:    
Monday, August 6
Material:   Ch-18   18.3   Buffers
   Quantitative
Assignments:            
Owl:    
Friday, August 3
Material:   Ch-18   18.1
18.2
 
18.3
  Acid-Base Reactions
The Common Ion Effect
   An Introduction to Buffers
Buffers
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Acid Base: Calculations » Due: August 3
  » Acid Base: Salt solutions »  Due: August 3
  » Acid Base: Polyprotic acids »  Due: August 3
Thursday, August 2
Material:   Ch-17   17.9
  Polyprotic Acids
   Salts of Polyprotic Acids
Assignments:            
Owl:  
Wednesday, August 1
Material:   Ch-17   17.8
 
17.9
  Hydrolysis:
   Qualitative ... Quantitative
Polyprotic Acids
Assignments:            
Owl:  
Friday, July 27
Material:   Ch-17   17.7
17.8
  Equilibria involving weak acids/bases
Hydrolysis
Assignments:            
Owl:    

Exam I Material: Everything Covered Below This Line.  
Includes All Owls Assigned Up to this date ... Even those with deadlines after this date.

Thursday, July 26
Material:   Ch-17   17.6
17.7
  pH a strength indicator?
Equilibria involving weak acids/bases
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Equilibrium: Equilibrium: Le Chatelier  » Due: July 26
  » Discovery: Acids and Bases » Due: July 27
  » Acid Base: Bronsted/Lowry Theory » Due: July 27
  » Acid Base: pH/pOH Calcs » Due: July 27
  » Acid Base: Calculations » Due: July 29
Wednesday, July 25
Material:   Ch-17   17.1-
17.4
17.6
  An Introduction to Acids and Bases, Relative Strengths, Conjugates and a look at water!
Autoionization of Water and the pH Scale
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Equilibrium: Reaction Quotient  » Due: July 25
  » Discovery: Le Chatelier's Principle  » Due: July 25
Tuesday, July 24
Material:   Ch-16   16.3
16.6
  The Reaction Quotient
Le Chatelier's Principle ....
  ... Disturbing a Chemical Equilibrium.
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Equilibrium: K Basics  » Due: July 24
Monday, July 23
Material:   Ch-16   16.2   Discovering the Equilibrium Constant
Writing and Manipulating Eq. Constants.
  Manipulating K
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Discovery: Ea and Reaction Rate  » Due: July 23
  » Temperature and Reaction Rates  » Due: July 23
Friday, July 20
Material:   Ch-15   15.5
 
15.6
  Energy Profiles
Arrhenius Equation
Reaction Mechanisms
Assignments:          
Owl:   » Discovery: Radioactive Decay  » Due: July 20
  » Discovery: Rate Laws via Graphical Method  » Due: July 20
  » Rate Law and Order of Reaction  » Due: July 20
Thursday, July 19
Material:   Ch-15   15.4
 
15.5
  Integrated Rate Laws
  
» Graphical Method
The Arrhenius Equation
Assignments:            
Owl:     » Nuclear Reactions  » Due: July 19
  » Reaction Rates  » Due: July 19
  » Effect of Conc on Reaction Rates  » Due: July 19
Wednesday, July 18
Material: Ch-15   15.1
 
15.3
Rate of a Chemical Reaction
  
» Decomposition
Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate
Owl:      » Intro to OWL: Types of Questions  » Due: July 19
  » Intro to OWL: Important things to learn  » Due: July 19
Tuesday, July 17
Material: Ch-24   24.2

24.4
Nuclear Reactions
  
» Isotope Stability
Rate of A Radioactive Decay
Assignments: Ch-24     55
Owl: