Power points

Chem 1984 Fall 2013

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Monday 8/26

Lecture 1:

The “trouble” with chemistry

Bring calculators and manual to the first lab, maggots.

Wednesday 8/28

Lecture 2:

Metric-Metric; inside the atomic cookie

Thomson, Rutherford:  how the first two empiric models of the atoms came to be

Friday 8/30

Lecture 3:

Rutherford’s atom metaphors;

Spooky electron behavior

-Quiz 1

-Getting a handle on atomic dimensions; why electrons give physicists and chemists headaches

Monday 9/2

Lecture 4:

Spooky electrons (continued);

Rutherford’s atom problems;

Planck and DeBroglie to the rescue

Uncertainty principle revealed;

Rutherford’s model is wrong;

The beginnings of a fix to the atomic model

Wednesday 9/4

Lecture 5:

 wave calculations

Calculations with wave equation

Friday 9/6

Lecture 6:

Photoelectric effect

Quiz 2

The photoelectric effect unmasked;

Monday 9/9

Lecture 7:

DeBroglie hypothesis and the Bohr atom;

Calculating with Bohr’s equation

(failures of Bohr model; )

How Photoelectric effect and l=h/mv

leads to the Bohr model…and why it fails.

Wednesday 9/11

Lecture 8:

Failures of the Bohr atom; the spectroscopist’s atom-why we sing the spdf song

The fourth atomic model and the vengeful return of the experimental chemists

Friday 9/13

Lecture 9:

Singing the spdf song including the d-  switch verse;

 

 

Practice enumerating the energy levels of elements;

Monday 9/16

Lecture 10:

More Practice with transition metal configurations;

Schrӧdinger’s final solution for H;

Quantum number rules

 

Schrӧdinger model and the `multiverse’ problem;

Quantum # counting rules

 

 

 

Wednesday 9/18

Lecture 11:

Quantum number rules and the Periodic Table;

Practice using the rules (problems 787,79 page 105);

How Schrӧdinger theory generates the Periodic Table; some examples of using the n,L,mL,ms counting rules;

Friday 9/20

Exam 1

 

Monday 9/23

Lecture 12:

Physical Trends in the Periodic Table;

“The plan”;

Isotopes, average masses

Trends in atomic radii, ionization potential and electron affinity;

The mole plan;

Brief revisit of isotopes and average mass

Wednesday 9/25

Lecture 13:

Nuclear death and the n/p ratio; mole as the chemist’s dozen

Unobtanium and the stability of atoms; the mole concept deconstructed; sample problems worked

Friday 9/27

Lecture 14:

Moles every which way you look

Examples of basic, extended, and both compositional and stoichiometric mole problems worked

Monday 9/30

Lecture 15:

More mole calculations: relating components of an molecule to each other and to the molecule

“Body parts calculations” (continued from Lecture 14);

Quiz 3

Wednesday 10/2

Lecture 16:

% Composition  Problems

Drill and practice is the focus here;

Problems both from text and instructor are worked

Friday 10/4

Lecture 17:

One more % Composition Problem; Combustion problems and Reaction Equation balancing

Ditto to above

Wednesday 10/9

Lecture 18:

Equation balancing (continued);

Introduction to Reaction Stoichiometry: examples of problem types and a justification for why we do them

More practice balancing reactions;

An  overview of the process of solving stoichiometry problems and some practical justifications for why

Friday 10/11

Lecture 19:

Reaction stoichiometry practice

Using factor-label and mole ratio methods to solve stoichiometry problems.  Quiz 4

Monday 10/14

Lecture 20:

More reaction stoichiometry practice

Working the many versions of the `reaction stoichiometry’ problem

Wednesday 10/16

Lecture 21:

Limiting and % Yield Calculations

Both non-chemical and chemical calculations featuring limiting conditions and % yields

Friday 10/18

Lecture 22:

Introduction to bonding models: ionic vs. covalent behavior and electronegativity

Demos and preliminary thinking about what holds stuff together at the molecular level

Monday 10/21

Lecture 23:

Electronegativity differences; predicting ionic and near-ionic compounds; ionic radii trends & ionic structure

Using electronic configurations to deduce ion charges and how the crossing trick let’s us predict correctly a compound formula; visuals of ions

Wednesday 10/23

Lecture 24:

Ionic Crystal Structures; Non-Ionic Bonding and the Lewis Octet Model;

Curious factoids about crystals; the Lewis approach to bonding

Friday 10/25

Lecture 25:

Practice Drawing Lewis Structures

Lewis structures demonstrated ad nauseum

Wednesday 10/30

Lecture 26:

Extensions beyond the Lewis Octet rule

Resonance, formal charge rules

Friday 11/1

Lecture 27:

non-octet Lewis structures;

Practice extending Lewis rules past the octet rule;

Monday 11/4

Lecture 28:

Using Lewis structures to predict molecular shape: VSEPR theory

How to use balloons and Lewis structures to guess molecular shape

Wednesday 11/6

Lecture 29:

Pauling’s Hybridization model

How to use balloons and Lewis structures to guess hybridization

Friday 11/8

Lecture 30:

 practice with Pauling’s hybrid mode;

a glimpse of modern MO

spn assignments from Lewis basics

Monday 11/11

Lecture 31:

Modern MO theory example;

Specific heat, temperature and some problems

Example of results from Spartan 8 quantum chemical program;

Heat, temperature and pecific heats

Wednesday 11/13

Lecture 32:

Typical calculations with specific heat;

Dulong & Petit’s `Law;

Introduction to heat, work and internal energy

Specific heats and heat flow;

Introduction to internal energy, Hess law and thermochemistry

Friday 11/15

Lecture 33:

Work, Heat and internal energy changes for an ideal gas piston;

Enthalpy

How work, heat and energy exchange in a model system; How constant P turns heat into a state function (enthalpy)

Monday 11/18

Lecture 34:

Hess’s law calculations;

Standard state enthalpies of formation and their uses

Number crunching with heats of reaction; heats of formation

 

 

 

Wednesday 11/20

Lecture 35:

Using Hess law to compute reaction heats;

Introduction to Gas Laws

Practice using Hess Law and standard heats of formation; Pressure units and the simple, dimple common sense nature of the basic gas laws (at constant n);

Friday 11/22

Lecture 36:

Combined Gas Law problems;

Avogadro’s Law and the derivation of the Ideal Gas Law;

A few Ideal Problems;

How we go from the empiric to Ideal Gas Law and some typical problems using both; The wacko implications of PV=nRT,or, What the Kinetic Theory of gases is really saying…

Monday 11/25

Leture 37:

Using the Ideal Gas Law in Stoichiometry;

The Kinetic Gas Theory;

Van der Waal Corrections

How we use the Ideal Gas Law in Chemistry; The Ideal gas law is a wacko idea; the kinetic theory explaining is nuts, but it works; …but it doesn’t, so we use Van Der Waal corrections

Monday 12/2

Lecture 38:

Introduction to Phase changes

Ways to study phase changes:

The liquid-vaporization curve method;

Wednesday 12/4

Lecture 39:

Vaporization curves and the Clausius-Clapeyron equation;

Heating and cooling curves

How to extract vaporization heats from P vs. T curves (Clausius-Clapeyron equation);  How heating/cooling curves provide specific heats for both single and two phase situations

Friday 12/6

Lecture 40:

Heating and cooling curves and specific heats;

Practice interpreting cooling/heating curve data;  Phase diagrams are maps;

How Phase diagrams are built fro heating/cooling curves;

Monday 12/9

Lecture 41:

Reading a Phase Diagram and how they are made

Phase diagram interpretation;

Examples of specific phase diagrams and what we learn from them