AP Chemistry Prep
course information
Start Date:
November 29, 2021
End Date:
February 14, 2022
Student Information
Instructor :
Vincenzo Angelo
Teaching Format:
In Person
Unit 1: Atomic Structure and Properties
- Moles and molar mass
- Atomic Number & Atomic Mass - What is this important?
- Valence Electrons & What that matters
Unit 2: Molecular and Ionic Compound Structure and Properties
- Types of chemical bonds (Ionic & Covalent)
- Crystals & Lattices - what they form the shapes they do
- Lewis diagrams
Unit 3: Inter-molecular Forces and Properties
- Solids, liquids, and gases
- Ideal gas law
- Kinetic molecular theory
- Deviation from ideal gas law
- Solutions and mixtures
- Solubility
- Beer-Lambert Law (concentration is linked to absorption)
Unit 4: Chemical Reactions
- Introduction for reactions
- Representations of reactions
- Stoichiometry - stuff gets in the way
- Types of chemical reactions
- Introduction to acid-base reactions
- Oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions
Unit 5: Kinetics
- Reaction rates
- Introduction to rate law
- Concentration changes over time
- Elementary reactions
- Collision model
- Reaction mechanism and rate law
- Steady-state approximation
- Catalysis
Unit 6: Thermodynamics
- Endothermic and exothermic processes
- Energy diagrams
- Heat transfer and thermal equilibrium
- Heat capacity and calorimetry
- Energy of phase changes
- Introduction of enthalpy of reaction
- Bond enthalpies
- Enthalpy of formation
- Hess's Law
Unit 7: Equilibrium
- Introduction to equilibrium
- Direction of reversible reactions
- Reaction quotient and equilibrium constant
- Calculating the equilibrium constant
- Magnitude of the equilibrium constant
- Introduction to solubility equilibria
- Common-ion effect
- pH and solubility
Unit 8: Acids and Bases
- Introduction to acids and bases
- pH and pOH of strong acids and bases
- Weak acid and base equilibria
- Acid-base reactions and buffers
- Acid-base titrations
- Molecular structures of acids and bases
- pH and pKa
- Properties of buffers
- Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
- Buffer capacity
Unit 9: Applications of Thermodynamics
- Introduction to entropy
- Absolute entropy and entropy change
- Gibbs Free Energy and thermodynamic favorability
- Thermodynamic and kinetic control
- Free energy and equilibrium