Thu 8/26 course introduction, canvas, course website, grading, being prepared, InstaPolls, some properties of water, solvation, hydration

chembook 6.1

Tue 8/31 acid / base theory, the 3 definitions, acid/base conjugate pairs, carboxylic acids (weak acids), amines (weak bases)

chembook 6.1-6.2, 6.6, 6.10

Thu 9/2 the lists of strong acids and strong bases, strong and weak electrolytes (acids/bases), percent ionization, the mass action expression, the reaction quotient (Q), the equilibrium constant (K), specifically K_a and K_b, solving for pH of percent ionization problems

chembook 6.3-6.4, 6.5, 6.9

Tue 9/7 K_w, pH, pOH, pK, pX, acid/base neutralizations, calculations, titration intro

chembook 6.5-6.8

Thu 9/9 big picture of acid/base theory and the reactions

chembook 6 (all)

Tue 9/14 More on titrations and the specifics of how they are performed, acid/base indicators

chembook 6.7-6.8

Thu 9/16 the water that is around us each day, nature's water and some of the problems facing society

chembook 6.11

Thu 9/23 intro to electrochemistry, eChem definitions, assigning oxidation numbers, into to balancing redox reactions

chembook 7.1-7.3

Tue 9/28 more on balancing redox reactions, identifying the oxidizing agent and reducing agents, voltaic vs electrolytic cells, anode vs cathode, calculating \(E^\circ\)

chembook 7.1-7.3

Thu 9/30 electrochemical cell shorthand notation, active metals vs inert metals, inert metal electrodes, S.H.E., standard potentials, using a std potential table

chembook 7.4

Tue 10/5 tweaking the std potential, how concentration effects the potential (Nernst equation), counting coulombs, electric current, the faraday constant, electroplating

chembook 7.6-7.7

Thu 10/7 follow up on electrolytic cells and counting coulombs, intro to batteries, battery types

chembook 7.7-7.8

Tue 10/12 more on batteries, battery facts / trivia

chembook 7.9-7.10

Tue 10/19 intro to organic chemistry, alkanes and their nomenclature, review of line/dot structures, functional groups

chembook 8

Thu 10/21 more on functional groups, different types of carbons in structures, amine types, heterolytic vs homolytic cleavage, organic reaction types

chembook 8

Tue 10/26 more on reaction types, intro to polymers, the Big 6 plastics, LDPE vs HDPE

chembook 8

Thu 10/28 other plastics, addition mechanism vs condensation mechanism, examples with plastics/polymers

chembook 8

Tue 11/2 nature's polymers

chembook 8

Tue 11/9

chembook 9

Thu 11/11

chembook 9

Tue 11/16

chembook 9

Thu 11/18

chembook 9

Tue 11/23

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Thu 11/25

THANKSGIVING BREAK
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Tue 11/30

chembook 9