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Mid-Term Review
6:00 – 7:30 pm, Tue, 22 Oct. 2019
LT-A
In this Review Session, the following information about the Mid-Term Exam
will be provided:
For each chapter, ~ 20% of questions in Exam paper were selected from
HW assignments.
Reading Assignments Exercises & Review Questions Lecture PPTs & Videos
Intended-learning-outcomes(ILOs):
Scientific Method and Chemistry:
1. Be able to describe the general steps in scientific method;
2. Be aware of the roles and differences between observation, hypothesis, experiment,
measurement, theory, model, natural law;
3. Be aware of what chemistry is all about at macroscopic and microscopic scales.
4. Be aware of the scale-dependent behaviors of substances;
Intended-learning-outcomes:……(continues)
Modern view of atomic structure: Overall pictures
8. Be able to describe the composition of atom in terms of sub-atomic particles and the key
experimental evidences;
9. Be able to describe the concept of isotopes;
10. Be able to provide the qualitative and semi-quantitative physical description of atomic
structure in terms of length scale and mass density of sub-atomic components;
11. Be able to write the correct symbols of atoms;
Energy
Wave behavior Particle behavior Quantization
Key Information:
Both light(without rest mass) and matter(with rest mass) display non-classical behaviors, including
wave~particle duality;
energy quantization;
energy~mass equivalence.
28. Be familiar with and able to rationalize the periodic trends of the defined properties such as
electronegativity (cp ), metal/nonmetal character, and the effective nuclear charge (Zeff);
29. Be aware that it is the number and type of valence electrons that primarily determine an
atom’s chemical behavior, especially its chemical bonding with other atoms.;
30. Be aware that the elements in the same group ( the same column) have the same number
and type of valence electrons, and the same electronic configuration, and therefore are
expected to display similar chemical behaviors;
31. Be aware that the elements in the same block are expected to be chemically more similar to
each other than with the elements in other blocks;
32. Be familiar with the typical properties of the alkali metals;
33. Be familiar with the typical properties of the halogen non-metals.
1. Equation that relates the energy of a photon with its frequency(or wavelength)
2. Equation that calculates the energy of orbits in Bohr model for H-atom
: Required qualitatively.
: Required quantitatively.
Intended-learning-outcomes :
Chemical bonds: the nature, the driving force and main types.
1. Be able to describe the nature of chemical bonds;
2. Be able to describe the driving force for the formation of chemical bonds among atoms;
3. Be able to describe the main types of chemical bonds;
Ionic bonds:
4. Be familiar with the important attributions in ionic bond and ionic compounds, including
ionic electronic configuration, ionic radius, and lattice energy;
5. Be familiar with the isoelectronic series of ions;
6. Be able to write the chemical formula for ionic compounds ( ionic solids );
Covalent bonds:
7. Be able to describe a chemical bond in terms of bond length, bond energy and bond polarity;
8. Be able to discuss the bond polarity (and types of chemical bond) in terms of the
electronegativity differences between two bound atoms;
9. Be familiar with the concept of dipole moment, and its use in bond polarity;
Intended-learning-outcomes(Chapter 3 continues … ):
10. Be aware of the relation between bond polarity and molecular polarity;
11. Be aware of the representation of the charge polarity in molecules by the charge distribution
diagram, the electrostatic potential diagram, and the permanent dipole moment
12. Be able to estimate the partial ionic character in a polar covalent bond;
Level of Difficulty:
At the similar/lower level of the Questions/Exercises in the Homework
Assignments.
Question: The very first atomic theory, Dalton’s atomic model, was based
on the observations on which of the following atomic properties ?
(A) Atoms contain electrons;
(B) Atoms contain nuclei;
(C) Atoms contain protons;
(D) Atoms contain neutrons;
Question: Bohr’s planetary (or shell) atomic model was built on the earlier atomic
models as well as which of the following experimental observations ?
(A) Three fundamental chemical laws;
(B) Thomson’s Cathode-ray tube experiment ;
(C) Millikan experiment;
(D) Rutherford’s a-particle scattering experiment;
(D) 14;
(E) 25.
The number of electrons in f-subshell = 2 x 7 = 14.
Question: Choose the compound with the most “ionic bond” character
F
(A) LiCl O
(B) KF
(C) NaCl Reference
Level
H
C
N
Cl
Br
(D) LiF I
(E) KCl
Li
Na
K
Rb
Cs
Fr
(B) Cl2
(C) Br2
(D) I2
(E) All are equal.
(E) NO
(A)
(B)
(C)
N
S
P
(D) I
(E) All of the atoms (A-D) can exceed the octet rule.
Hyper-valent on Xe!
(Steric number = 6 )
The number of “the effective pairs” determines the type of hybridization (and the
number of AOs required for hybridization) :
No. of
“ effective pairs ” 2 3 4 5 6
(b) sp2
(c) sp3
H
C
C
C
H
sp2 !
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Q&A
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