Chemistry 6A

Learning Objectives Chapter 3

Reading:
o Read all of Chapter 3
o Read Chapter 4 Sections 4.1-4.2
o Read Chapter 11 Sections 11.1-11.5
What is the difference between molecular mass, formula mass, and
molar mass?
You should be able to use a formula and the periodic table to calculate
molecular mass, formula mass, or molar mass of any chemical species.
You need to memorize Avogadros number. You should also know how
to use it to convert between number of particles and number of moles
(and vice versa).
What is a mole? What are the two ways that information about moles
can be used as conversion factors?
You should be able to use molar mass to convert between mass and
number of moles (and vice versa).
You should be able to take the chemical formula of a compound and
use that information and information from the periodic table to
calculate the percent composition of a compound.
What is the difference between empirical and molecular formulas?
Can you look at a formula and determine if it could be an empirical
formula?
You should be able to use percent composition data to calculate the
empirical formula of a compound.
If I give you composition data for a compound, you should be able to
calculate the empirical formula of the compound.
You should be able to use a periodic table, an empirical formula, and a
compounds molecular weight (or molar mass) in order to determine
the compounds molecular formula.
What is a chemical equation? What are the two parts of the chemical
equation?
How can you indicate the physical state of reactants or products in a
chemical equation?
How can you indicate the conditions under which a chemical reaction
should occur?
How does Daltons Atomic Theory relate to the idea of balanced
chemical equations?
You should be able to correctly balance an unbalanced chemical
equation.
What is the difference between a coefficient and a subscript in a
chemical equation? What are each of these numbers used to indicate?

You should be able to use the subscripts in a molecular formula to

determine how many of each kind of atom there are.
How is the modern periodic table organized? You should be able to
describe what the periodic law means in your own words.
What are columns called in the periodic table? Why are they called
that? What are rows called in the periodic table? Why are they called
that?
You should be able to identify the regions of the periodic table where
you would find metals, nonmetals, and metalloids.
You need to know the names of the following groups on the periodic
table: Group 1A, Group 2A, Group 7A, and Group 8A.
You should be able to identify an element based on its position in the
periodic table (ie. A nonmetal in period 3, a halogen in period 2, an
element with similar properties to Ca?)
You should know the periodic trends for atomic size, ionization energy,
electron affinity and metallic character. You should be able to use
those trends to order a group of elements (for example, from smallest
ionization energy to largest, etc.). You should also know the reasons
behind the trends (i.e., Why does atomic size decrease across a
period? Why does it increase down a column?).
How does the size of a cation compare to the size of the neutral atom
it came from? How does the size of an anion compare to the size of
the neutral atom it came from? (Why?)
You should be able to look at a series of isoelectronic species and
determine which one will have the largest radius.
What is ionization energy? You should be able to write the chemical
equation corresponding to the ionization energy of an atom.
What causes the discrepancies in the ionization energy trend?
What is electron affinity?
Do metals tend to gain or lose electrons? Nonmetals?
What kind of oxides do metals form? Nonmetals?