Chem 032: Introductory Chemistry

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Lecture# Date Download Topic Readings

1 1/16/2007 COURSE GRADES syllabus; intermolecular interactions 13.1
2 1/18/2007 Lecture 2 intermolecular interactions; energetics of dissolution 13.3
3 1/23/2007 Lecture 3 solubility; concentrations 13.4, 13.5
4 1/25/2007 Lecture 4 colligative properties 13.6
5 1/30/2007 Lecture 5 reaction rate; rate laws, general 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
6 2/1/2007 Lecture 6 integrated rate law; temperature effects 16.4, 16.5
7 2/6/2007 Lecture 7 reaction mechanism; catalysts 16.6, 16.7, 16.8
8 2/8/2007 Lecture 8
equilibrium constant; reaction quotient 17.1, 17.2
9 2/13/2007 Lecture 9 equilibrium for gases; equilibrium calculations (simple) 17.3, 17.4
10 2/15/2007 Lecture 10 Lecture cancelled due to snow 17.5
11 2/20/2007 Lecture 11 calculations (more difficult) 17.5
12 2/22/2007 Lecture 12 LeChatelier's principle 17.6
13 2/27/2007 Lecture 13 aqueous acids/bases; autoionization; Bronsted-Lowry definition 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
14 3/1/2007 Lecture 14 acid-base equilibrium calculations 18.4

3/6/2007 No class

15 3/8/2007 Lecture 15 polyprotic acids; weak bases 18.5

3/13/2007 Spring Break


3/15/2007 Spring Break

16 3/20/2007 Lecture 16 acidity trends; pH of salt solutions; Lewis acid/base
18.6, 18.7, 18.8, 18.9
17 3/22/2007 Lecture 17
buffers
19.1
18 3/27/2007 Lecture 18
acid-base titrations 19.2
19 3/29/2007 Lecture 19
solubility equilibria
19.3
20 4/3/2007 Lecture 20
entropy and spontaneity
20.1
21 4/5/2007 Lecture 21
calculating change in entropy for a reaction 20.2
22 4/10/2007 Lecture 22
entropy and free energy; free energy and equilibrium
20.3, 20.4
23 4/12/2007 Lecture 23
balancing redox reactions
21.1
24 4/17/2007 Lecture 24
voltaic cells; voltages; free energy 21.2, 21.2, 21.3
25 4/19/2007 Lecture 25
concentration effects; batteries; electolysis; corrosion
21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7
26 4/24/2007 Lecture 26
radioactivity; nuclear stability
24.1
27 4/26/2007 Lecture 27
radioactive decay; nuclear transmutation
24.2, 24.3
28 5/1/2007
Lecture 28
mass-energy interconversion
24.6