Lecture Date Chapter topics  Reading (Tro) Pre-class Problems Post-class Problems
1 30-Nov Syllabus introduction pg. 460-473
11.1 Climbing Geckos and Intermolecular Forces
11.2 Solids, Liqids, and Gases: A molecular Comparison
11.3 Intermolecular Forces
pg. 474-488 11.5O 11.52, 11.54, 11.56
1-Dec 11.4 Intermolecular Forces in Action
2 11.5 Vaporization and Vapor Pressure
11.6 Sublimation and Fusion
11.7 Heating Curve for Water
pg 491-495 11.7O 11.72, 11.78, 11.82
3-Dec 11.8 Phase Diagrams
11.9 Water
3 11.84 11.86
7-Dec catch-up
Review of enthalpy and heat
4 8-Dec 17.1 Nature's Heat Tax pg. 774-778 17.28 17.34
17.2 Spontaneous Processes
10-Dec Exam 1 - Chapter 11 and energy/heat
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14-Dec 17.3 Entropy pg. 779-792 17.52
17.4 Heat Transfer
6 17.5 Gibbs Free Energy
15-Dec 17.6 Entropy in Chemical Reactions pg. 793-802 17.54 17.58
7 17.7 Free Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions
17-Dec Catch-up
Merry Christmas
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4-Jan 13.1 Catching Lizards Pg 568-575 13.26 13.28, 13.30, 13.34, 13.38
13.2 Rate of a Chemical Reaction
9 13.3 The Rate Law
5-Jan 13.4 Integrated Rate Law pg. 575-594 13.44, 13.46 13.52, 13.58, 13.64
10 13.5 Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate
7-Jan 13.6 Reaction Mechanisms pg 594-604 13.70, 13.72 13.78, 13.80
13.7 Catalysis
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11-Jan 14.1 Fetal Hemoglobin and Equilibrium pg. 616-626 14.22, 14.24 14.30, 14.34
14.2 Dynamic Equilibrium
14.3 Equilibrium Constant (K)
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12-Jan 14.4 Expressing K in Terms of Pressure pg. 626-633 14.32 14.36, 14.38, 14.40, 14.44
14.5 Heterogeneous Equilibrium
13 14.6 Calculating K from Concentrations
14-Jan 14.7 The Reaction Quotient pg. 633-645 14.46 14.48, 14.50, 14.52, 14.58
14 14.8 Finding Equilibrium Concentrations
15 18-Jan 14.9 Le Chatelier's Principle pg 645-653 14.62 14.64, 14.66, 14.70
17.8 Free Energy Changes for Nonstandard States p804-810
16 17.9 Free Energy and Equilibrium
19-Jan Catch-up 14.74, 14.76
  21-Jan Exam #2 Chapter 13, 14, and 17
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25-Jan 7.1 Quantum Mechanics pg 280-294 7.38, 7.42 7.46, 7.48
7.2 The Nature of Light
7.3 Atomic Spectroscopy and the Bohr Model
18 26-Jan 7.4 Wave Nature of Matter pg. 295-313 7.52, 7.56 7.64, 7.72, 7.74
7.5 Quantum Mechanics and the Atom
7.6 The Shapes of Atomic Orbitals
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28-Jan catch-up
1-Feb 8.1 Nerve signal Transmission Pg 318 - 331 8.42, 8.46 8.48, 8.50, 8.51
8.2 The Development of the Periodic Table
8.3 Electron Configurations: How Electrons Occupy Orbitals
8.4 Electron Configurations, Valence Electrons, and the Periodic Table
2-Feb 8.5 Explanatory Power of Quantum Model pg 332-337 8.56, 8.60 8.64, 8.74
8.6 Periodic Trends
4-Feb 8.7: Ions pg. 337-354 8.78 8.80
8.8 Electron Affinities and Metallic Character
8.9 Alkali Metals, Halogens, and Noble Gases
8-Feb 9.1 Bonding Models and AIDS drugs pg. 362-67 9.38 9.40
9.2 Types of Chemical Bonds
9.3 Representing Valence Electrons with Dots
9-Feb 9.4 Ionic Bonding pg. 367-380 9.54 9.56
9.5 Covalent Bonding
9.6 Electronegativity and Bond Polarity
11-Feb 9.7 Lewis Structures of Molecular Compounds pg. 381-387 9.60, 9.62 9.68
9.8 Resonance and Formal Charge
15-Feb 9.9 Exceptions to the Octet Rule pg. 387-396 9.72 9.80
9.10 bond energies and Bond lengths
16-Feb catch-up/review
18-Feb Exam #3 Chapters 7,8 and 9