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READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS DOCUMENT

This should be used as a additional resource to understand material on your schedule and for the MCAT.

KEEP YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE!!

ASK QUESTIONS!!

The Atom:

Overview document of Atoms

Elements:

Bohr Model:

Shells, subshells, orbitals:

(Good general intro to orbitals; shows how orbitals relate to the periodic table and electron configuration.)

 

Atomic Structure

Structure of Nucleus

Atomic number & mass number.

Isotopes

 

Periodic Table:

Periodic table overview

Outlines each trend

Atomic radius trends

Ionization energy trends

Electron affinity trends

 

Quantum Mechanics:

Atomic Orbitals

How to determine the quantum numbers)

(Quantum Numbers)

 

Electron Configuration:

(Aufbau’s Principle, Hund’s Rule and Pauli’s Exclusion Principle)

 

Energy Levels:

(Orbitals, Energy Levels)

Radioactive Decay & Half-Life:

(Half Life Problems)

 

Bonding:

(Ionic, Covalent, Coordinate)

 

Formulas:

(Chemical formulas.)

Writing Chemical Formulas for covalent compounds

(Empirical vs Molecular Formula calculations)

 

Nomenclature

 

Inorganic Nomenclature:

(Naming Inorganic Compounds)

 

Reactions:

(Types of Chemical Reactions)

 

The Mole, Stoichiometry, and Mole-to-Mole Conversions:

(Mole to Mole)

(Stoichiometry)

(Avogadro’s Number, molar mass conversion)

Mole to Mole Conversion

 

Equilibrium:

(Equilibrium)

(Chemical Equilibrium Constant)

 

(How to write the Equilibrium Expression)

 

Kinetics:

(OVERVIEW)

(Initial Rates Method)

Integrated Rate Laws

Writing Rate Laws

(Factors affecting the Rate of the Reaction)

 

Heat Exchange:

(Describe heat exchange with conduction, convection, and radiation)

Includes a different way to view heat exchange via conduction and convection

(Excellent clarification of the term “heat” and how it relates to work.)

Khan Academy video on heat transfer

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Heat Capacity & Specific Heat Capacity:

Overview Specific heat capacity

(practice and extra help Specific Heat Capacity)

(What is the difference between Specific Heat Capacity, Heat Capacity)

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Calorimetry

Overview of calorimetry

(How to solve Basic Calorimetry Problems)

 

 

 

Thermodynamics

1st Law of Thermodynamic

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

3rd Law of Thermodynamics

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

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Enthalpy:

(Enthalpy of Formation Reaction, and Enthalpy Change Problems)

(Enthalpy)

(Enthalpy change of Reaction and Formation)

 

Entropy:

Entropy Problems

Entropy Change

 

Gibbs Free Energy

Review of ∆G and its relationship to Keq

 

(Gibbs Free Energy)

 

Acid-Base

(Acids and Bases Introduction and Conjugate bases and acids)

pH Scale

(pH, pOH, H3O+, OH-, Kw, Ka, Kb, pKa, pKb Problems)

 

Acid Base Equilibria

Ionization of Water;

Acid and Base Dissociations

Calculating pH

(Calculating pH for a weak acid.)

(Calculating pH for a weak base.)

 

Acid/Base Strength

(strong Acids and Strong Bases)

WEAK bases and weak acids

(Acid Base Strength)

Hydrolysis of Salts

(Hydrolysis of salts and weak acids and bases)

Titration: titration curves

Titration w/ strong acid and strong base

Titration w/ weak acid base

Indicators

Buffers

Calculating Buffers

 

Oxidation States

How to calculate Oxidation and reduction numbers

Redox Reactions

Electrical Potentials (half-reactions, hydrogen half-cell, cell potential, E°)

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Electrochemistry

 

Galvanic Cells

 

Electrolytic Cells

 

Concentration Cells

Nernst

 

Gibbs Free Energy & Chemical Energy

 

Kinetic Theory of Gases; Ideal Gas Assumptions

STP

 

Ideal Gas Law

Ideal Gas Law Volume and gas

Ideal gas laws Manipulating Equations

Ideal Gas Assumptions

 

Real Gas Behavior

 

Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures

How to calculate partial pressure problem

 

Effusion and Diffusion (Graham’s Law)

 

Phase Changes

Phase Diagrams

Heating Curves

 

Vapor Pressure;

VP Lowering

 

Raoult’s Law & Henry’s Law

 

BP and FP Elevation/Depression

 

Osmotic Pressure

 

Measuring and Describing Solutions

Solubility Product Constant (Ksp)

Ion Product

Ksp Solubility Constant vs Ion Product

 

Calculating Solubility

 

Common Ion Effect

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