Principles of Chemistry 1

Chapter 1. Matter- Measurement

1.1. Matter
1.1.1. Atoms and molecules
1.1.2. The Classification of Matter
1.1.3. Physical and chemical changes and properties
1.1.4. Energy – a fundamental part of physical and chemical changes
1.2. Measurement
1.2.1. The Units of measure
1.2.2. The Reliability of a Measurement (significant figures, accuracy and precision,
rounding method)
1.2.3. Application of dimensional analysis in calculations.

Chapter 2. Atoms – Chemical Elements

2.1. Atoms
2.1.1. Early ideas about the Building
Blocks of Matter
2.1.2. Modern theory of atom and fundamental laws
2.1.3. The discovery of the electron
2.1.4. The structure of the atom
2.1.5. Atomic mass, molar mass
2.2. Chemical element
2.2.1. Chemical element
2.2.2. The Arrangement of elements in the Periodic Table

Chapter 3. Molecules - Elements - Compounds - Chemical Equations

3.1. Representing Compounds: Chemical
Formulas and Molecular Models
3.2. An Atomic-Level View of Elements
and Compounds
3.3. Determining a Chemical Formula from
Experimental Data
3.4. Chemical equations
Chapter 4. Gases
4.1. Pressure – the result of particle collisions
4.2. The Simple Gas Laws- Boyle’s Law, Charles’s Law and Avogadro’s Law
4.3. The ideal gas law
4.4. Applications of the Ideal Gas Law- Molar Volume, Density and Molar Mass of a Gas
4.5. Mixtures of Gases and Partial Pressures
4.6. Real gases – the effect of size and intermolecular forces

Chapter 5. Liquids, Solids, Intermolecular Forces

5.1. Solids, liquids and gases – a molecular comparison
5.2. Intermolecular Forces - Surface Tension, Viscosity, and Capillary Action
5.3. Vaporization and Vapor Pressure
5.4. Sublimation and Fusion
5.5. Phase diagrams

Chapter 6. An overview of Nuclear Chemistry

6.1. Radioactivity
6.1.1. The Discovery of Radioactivity
6.1.2. Types of radioactivity.
6.1.3. The Kinetics of Radioactive Decay and Radiometric Dating
6.2. Fission reactions. Some examples.
6.3. Converting Mass to Energy- Mass Defect and Nuclear Binding Energy
6.4. Nuclear Fusion - The Power of the Sun
6.5. Nuclear Transmutation and Transuranium Elements. Artificial transmutation
6.6. The Effects of Radiation on Life
6.7. Radioactivity in Medicine and Other Applications

Chapter 7. The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the atom

7.1. Schrödinger's cat
7.2. The wave - particle duality of light
7.3. Atomic emission spectrum. The Bohr model
7.4. The wave-particle duality of matter
7.5. Quantum mechanics theory of atoms
7.5.1. Schrodinger's equation
7.5.2. Wave function and energy
7.5.3. Quantum numbers
7.6. Atomic Orbitals
7.6.1. Definition
7.6.2. The shape of atomic orbitals
7.7. Electron configurations for multielectron atoms
7.7.1. Principles and rules of the arrangement of the electrons
7.7.2. Relationship between electron configuration and the Periodic Table of the elements

Chapter 8. Chemical Bonding 1: An Overview of Chemical Bonding

8.1. Types of chemical bonds: ionic bonds, covalent bonds, metal bonds
8.2. Representation of valence electrons
8.3. Ionic bonding
8.4. Covalent bond
8.5. Electronegativity. The polarity of the bond (dipole moment,% ionic properties).
8.6. The formula for Lewis
8.6.1. How to write the formula for Lewis
8.6.2. The formula for resonance
8.6.3. Electric charge form
8.7. Octet rules and exceptions
8.8. Link energy and link length
8.9. Binding in metal. Model of the electron sea.
8.10. VSEPR model - predicting molecular geometry
8.10.1. The effects of free electron pairs
8.10.2. Using VSEPR model to predict molecular geometry
8.10.3. Molecular geometry and polarization of molecules

Chapter 9. Chemical Bonding 2: Valence bond Theory (VB) and Molecular Orbital
Theory (MO)
9.1. Covalent bond theory (VB)
9.1.1. Basic thesis of text theory
9.1.2. Orbital overlap and chemical bonding
9.1.3. The hybridization of atomic orbitals
9.2. Molecular orbital theory (MO)
9.2.1. Basic thesis of MO theory. Electron release.
9.2.2. MO scheme for A2 molecules (A - periodic element II)
9.2.3. MO scheme for AB molecules (A, B - periodic elements II)

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