schedule

Our daily schedule if things go according to plan. This schedule will be corrected to show what was actually covered each day after the fact.

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Thu 08/30Introduction to the class, syllabus, grading
Tue 09/04fundamentals, stoichiometry, limiting reactant, percent yield, concentration terms, introduction to the gas laws1, 2.1
Thu 09/06gas laws, ideal gas law, partial pressures, gas mixtures, mole fraction2.2-3
Tue 09/11Kinetic molecular theory2.4
Thu 09/13Real gases and their behavior2.5
Mon 09/17Exam 12
Tue 09/18electromagnetic radiation, introduction to atomic theory3.1
Thu 09/20hydrogen atom, line spectra...Rydberg equation, orbitals3.2
Tue 09/25hydrogen atom continued, electron configurations3.2, 3.3
Thu 09/27electron configurations, exceptions, intro trends3.3, 3.4
Tue 10/02trends of the periodic table3.4
Thu 10/04bonding, ionic, covalent, lewis dot structures4.1-4.3
Tue 10/09lewis dot structures, octet rule, exceptions4.4
Thu 10/11electronegativity, polar bonds4.5
Mon 10/15Exam 23-4.5
Tue 10/16polarity, bonding theory, VSEPR4.5-4.7
Thu 10/18VB Theory4.8
Tue 10/23MO Theory, IMF intro4.9, 5.1
Thu 10/25intermolecular forces (IMFs)5.1
Tue 10/30physical properties of solids and liquids5.2-5.3
Thu 11/01unit wrap-up, properties and IMFs, VB and MO
Mon 11/05Exam 34,5
Tue 11/06introduction to thermodynamics, system, surroundings, universe, state functions6.1
Thu 11/08work, heat, internal energy, and the the first law6.2
Tue 11/13enthalpy, Hess's Law6.2
Thu 11/15thermochemistry, calorimetry6.3
Tue 11/20intro to 2nd Law and entropy6.4
Thu 11/22Thanksgiving
Tue 11/27second law of thermodynamics, entropy6.4
Thu 11/29free energy and chemical equilibrium6.5
Mon 12/03Exam 46
Tue 12/04cool stuff
Thu 12/06final exam prep, thinking about CH302
Tue 12/11
Thu 12/13
Tue 12/18