What Do I Need To Learn?
The objectives for each chapter are given in some detail in your textbook
at the end of the chapter. You will be responsible for being able to work the
types of problems done in class and recitation, suggested end-of-chapter problems,
and problems on the LON-CAPA homework set.
In addition, from time to time, there will be certain things you will just
have to memorize, as you would a vocabulary in a language course. Below I
list these specific things you will need to learn from memory.
- Chapter 1
- Metric prefixes.
- Approximate English to metric conversions.
- Determining correct number of significant figures in a calculation.
- Chapter 2
- Names of scientists and their contributions to explaining atomic structure
- Know the names and symbols of elements 1 to 57, plus W, Pt, Au, Hg, Pb,
Bi, At, Rn, Th, U, Np, Pu
- Know names and charges on monoatomic ions (Tables 2.3 and 2.4)
- Know names and charges on polyatomic ions (Table 2.5)
- Know numerical prefixes for hydrates and binary covalent compounds
- Know names and formulas of acids and salts
- Know names and formulas of binary covalent compounds
- Know names of numerical prefixes for hydrates and binary covalent compounds (Table 2.6)
- Know names of first ten alkanes (Table 2.7)
- Chapter 3
- Avogadro's Number
- Chapter 4
- Solubilities of common ionic compounds in water(Table 4.1)
- Strong acids and strong bases (Table 4.2)
- Rules for assigning oxidation numbers (Table 4.3)
- Chapter 5
- Units of pressure (Table 5.2)
- Gas Laws
- Molecular Weight from Density
- Graham's Law of Effusion
- van der Waals Equation
- Chapter 6
- Energy and work definition
- Dimensions and units of energy
- Internal Energy and Enthalpy Relationships
- Isolated, closed, and open systems, definition
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- Units of heat capacity and specific heat
- Hess's Law
- Calculation of Enthalpy of reaction from Standard Enthalpies of Formation
- Chapter 7
- Names of Scientists and their contributions to explaining atomic structure
- Equations for interconverting wavelength, frequency, and energy of light
quanta
- Relative order of spectral regions (not specific wavelength ranges)
- Rydberg equation for energy between Bohr orbits
- De Broglie equation (wavelength of a particle from its mass and velocity)
- Shapes of s, p, and d orbitals
- Spherical and planar nodes
- Allowed quantum numbers, and quantum numbers associated with different orbitals
- Chapter 8
- Electron configuration of atoms and ions
- Number of unpaired electrons in atoms
- Trends in atomic and ionic radii, comparison of sizes
- Trends in ionization energy and electron affinity, comparison among atoms
- Reaction of metal and non-metal oxides with water
- Chapter 9
- Ionic bonding and lattice energy
- Simple Lewis structures of covalent compounds
- Trends in bond order, bond length and bond energy
- Trends in electronegativity, comparison of polarity of bonds
- Chapter 10
- Lewis dot structures, resonance structures, exceptions to the octet rule
- Formal charge; oxidation number
- Using bond energies to calculate heats of reaction
- VSEPR description of electron pair (or group) geometry and molecular geometry
- Determining polarity of a molecule from bond polarity and geometry
- Chapter 11
- Hybrid orbital description and relating geometry to hybridization
- Sigma and Pi Bonding
- Molecular orbitals, bonding in diatomic molecules of second row elements
- Bonding in aromatic compounds
- Chapter 12 (if we get that far)
- Energetics of phase changes
- Interpreting phase diagrams