1) Mass relationships in chemical reactions

2) Gases
a) Pressure of a gas
i) Units of pressure
b) The Gas laws
i) Boyle’s Law
ii) Charles’ Law
iii) Avogadro’s Law
c) Ideal Gas Equation
3) Dalton’s Law of partial pressures
a) the partial pressures of gases in a mixture
4) Gas stoichiometry
a) quantitative relationships of reactants and products in a gaseous reaction
5) Kinetic molecular theory of gases
a) the behavior and properties of gases at the molecular level

Quarter 2 – General Chemistry 1

1) Electronic Structure of Atoms
a) Quantum mechanical description of the atom
b) Schrodinger’s model of the hydrogen atom and wave functions
c) Main energy levels, sublevels and orbitals
d) Quantum numbers
e) Electron Configuration
i) Aufbau Principle
ii) Pauli Exclusion Principle
iii) Hund’s Rule
iv) Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
v) Orbital diagrams

2) Electronic Structure and Periodicity

a) The Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table
b) Periodic Variation in Atomic Properties
i) Atomic Radius and effective nuclear charge; the shielding effect in many-electron
atoms
ii) Ionic radius
iii) Ionization energy
iv) Electron affinity

3) Chemical Bonding Ionic Bonds

a) The stability of noble gases
b) Forming ions
c) Ionic bonding
d) Ionic compounds
e) Formulas
f) Structure
g) Properties
4) Covalent Bonds
a) Formation of covalent bonds
b) Formulas of molecular compounds
c) Lewis structure of molecules
d) Molecules of elements
e) Molecules of compounds
f) Structure and properties of molecular compounds
g) Strength of covalent bonds
h) Electronegativity and bond polarity
i) Geometry of molecules
j) Polarity of compounds

5) Organic compounds
a) The carbon atom
b) Bonding patterns in hydrocarbons
c) Properties and reactivities of common functional groups
d) Polymers
e) Biomolecules

General Chemistry 2

1) Intermolecular Forces and Liquids and Solids

a) Kinetic molecular model of liquids and solids
b) Intermolecular Forces
c) Dipole-dipole forces
d) Ion-dipole forces
e) Dispersion forces
f) Hydrogen bonds
g) Properties of liquids and IMF
h) Surface Tension
i) Viscosity
j) Vapour pressure, boiling point
k) Molar heat of vaporization
l) Structure and Properties of Water
m) Types and properties of solids
n) Crystalline and amorphous solids
o) Types of Crystals – ionic, covalent, molecular, metallic
p) Phase Changes - phase diagrams of water and carbon dioxide

2) Physical Properties of Solutions

a) Types of Solutions
b) Energy of solution formation
c) Concentration Units and comparison of concentration units
i) percent by mass, by volume
ii) mole fraction
iii) molality
iv) molarity
 v) percent by volume, percent by mass, ppm
d) Solution stoichiometry
e) Factors affecting Solubility
f) Colligative Properties of Nonelectrolyte and electrolyte solutions

3) Thermochemistry
a) Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions: exothermic and endothermic processes
b) First Law of Thermodynamics
c) Enthalpy of a Chemical Reaction - thermochemical equations
d) Calorimetry
e) Standard Enthalpy of Formation and Reaction Hess’ Law

4) Chemical Kinetics
a) The Rate of a Reaction
b) Factors that influence reaction rate
c) The Rate Law and its components
d) Collision theory
e) Catalysis

Quarter 2 – General Chemistry 2

1) Chemical Thermodynamics
a) Spontaneous processes
b) Entropy
c) The Second Law of Thermodynamics
d) Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Equilibrium

2) Chemical Equilibrium
a) The equilibrium condition
b) Writing the reaction quotient/equilibrium constant expression
c) Predicting the direction of a reaction
d) Significance of the equilibrium constant
e) Le Chatelier’s Principle

3) Acid-Base Equilibria and Salt Equilibria

a) Bronsted acids and bases
b) The acid-base properties of water
c) pH- a measure of acidity
d) Strength of acids and bases
e) Weak acids/weak bases and ionization constants
f) Relationship between the ionization constants of acids and their conjugate bases
g) The Common Ion Effect
h) Buffer solutions
i) Solubility equilibria

4) Electrochemistry
a) Redox reactions
b) Galvanic cells
c) Standard reduction potentials
d) Spontaneity of redox reactions
e) Batteries
f) Corrosion
g) Electrolysis