Course description
- Basic concepts – physical quantities, units, atoms, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry
- Atomic structure – nucleus, isotopes, hydrogen atom, Bohr model, photons, hydrogen spectrum, particle-wave duality
- Atoms – Wave functions, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals
- Periodic table – ionization energies, atomic radii, electron affinity, electronegativity, properties of the elements
- Chemical bond – Lewis structures and covalent bonds, resonance, exceptions, molecular geometry, bond order, valence and hybridization, molecular orbitals in diatomic molecules
- Gas laws – pressure, partial pressure, Boil law, Charle’s law, ideal gases, non-ideal gases.
Thermochemistry – heat, calorimetry, work, first law of thermodynamics, enthalpy & internal energy, Hess’s Law
Liquids, solids, and intermolecular forces – liquids, vapor pressure, critical points, phase diagrams, Clausius-Clapeyron equations
- Properties of solutions – molarity, enthalpy of solution formation, solubility of gases, solution mixtures, osmotic pressure, Henry’s law, Raoult’s law
- Ionic, molecular and metallic solids, crystal forms, packed structures, coordination, lattice distances
- Thermodynamics – entropy, second law, free energy, equilibrium
- Nuclear chemistry and radioactivity
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