Chemistry 1B: General Chemistry -- Spring 2008
11:00-12:10AM
Tentative Schedule


 
Chem 1B Lectures Staff Announcements Handouts Sections / MSI Homework On-Line Questions and Answers ERES Help
 
Date Topic Reading Links
M 31 March
W 2 April
Frist Law of Thermodynamics
Energy, Enthalpy, and Thermochemistry
Ch 9 (347-378) Ch 9
Homework #1, Due Wednesday 9th April
F 4 April
M 7 April
Properties of light and
Failures of Classical Mechanics
Ch 12 (510-526) Ch 12a
W 9 April
F 11 April
Quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom
Atomic orbitals
Ch 12 (526-530),
           (536-545)
Ch 12a
Homework #2, Due Wednesday 16th April
M 14 April
W 16 April
Many Electron Atoms: Orbital ordering
and electron configurations
Ch 12 (545-560) Ch 12b

F

18

April

MIDTERM #1                   

Homework #3, Due Wednesday 23rd April
M 21 April
W 23 April
Trends in Atomic properties
Periodicity
Ch. 12 (560-572) Ch 12b
F 25 April
Ionic and Covalent Bonding ch. 13 (582-603)  
Homework #4, Due Wednesday 30th April
M 28 April
W 30 April
F 2 May
"Classical" Theories of
  bonding and molecular shape
    Lewis Structures and VSEPR
Ch 13 (610-641)  
Homework #5, Due Wednesday 7th May
M 5 May
W 7 May
Molecular Orbital Theory
of covalent bonding
Ch 14 *(664-675)  
F 9 May
catch-up
Homework #6, Due Wednesday 14th May
M 12 May
W 14 May
Hybrid orbitals and molecular geometry
Ch 14 *(650-663)
            (675-680)
 

F

16

May

MIDTERM #2                    

Homework #7, Due Wednesday 28st May
M 19 May
W 21 May
Spectrocopy ch. 13 (680-695)
HANDOUT (spectros)
 
F 23May

M

26

May

W28May
Intermolecular Forces

HOLIDAY

and Phases
Ch. 16 (764-771)
 
Ch 16 (804-817)
 
Homework #7, Due Wednesday 28thMay
F 30May
M 2 June
W4June
Solutions
and Colligative Properties
Ch. 17 (826-856)  
Homework #8, Practice Problems on Spectroscopy
and Intermolecular Forces
F 6June
Catch-up and Review    
Homework #9, Practice Problems on Solutions
and Colligative Properties

Th

12

June

12:00-3:00 PM     FINAL EXAM