CHEM 102/105 Section H1 Lecture Notes

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Lecture 1 (January 7th and 9th)

(Gases, the ideal gas law, units of pressure, temperature and volume and unit conversions, Dalton's law of partial pressures, kinetic molecular theory)

Lecture 2 (January 9th and 14th)

(Real gases and the van der Waals equation, intermolecular forces, dipole moments, electronegativities, London dispersion forces)

Lecture 3 (January 14th and 16th)

(Liquids, surface tension, capillary action, adhesive and cohesive forces, viscosity, hydrogen bonding)

Lecture 4 (January 16th and 18th)

(Solids, solid classifications, lattices, asymmetric units, unit cells, simple, body-centred and face-centred cubic cells, metals, hexagonal closest packing, cubic closest packing, ionic solids, Braggs law)

Lecture 5 (January 21st and 23rd)

(Network atomic solids, diamond, graphite, silica, changes of state, vapour pressure, heating curves, superheating, supercooling, boiling point, melting point)

Lecture 6 (January 23rd)

(Solutions, solvents, solutes, dissolution, solubility, solubility product, electrolytes)

Lecture 7 (January 28th and 30th)

(Relative solubility scales, the common ion effect, the pH effect, ion product, general rules for solubility in water, qualitative analysis)

Lecture 8 (January 30th)

(Inorganic complexes, complex ions, ligands, coordination number, stepwise and overall stability constants, effect of ligands on solubility )

Lecture 9 (February 4th)

(Thermodynamics (contrasted with kinetics), energy (kinetic and potential), first law of thermodynamics, system and surroundings, state functions, internal energy, enthalpy, calorimetry)

Lecture 10 (February 6th and 11th)

(Calorimetry, Hess's Law, standard states, standard enthalpies of formation, heats of reaction, bond dissociation energies)

Lecture 11 (February 11th and 13th)

(Spontaneity, entropy and free energy)

Lecture 12 (February 13th and 25th)

(Spontaneity, entropy and free energy, entropy changes with temperature, phase changes, dissolution and molecular size and complexity, entropy of reaction, free energy of reaction)

Lecture 13 (February 25th)

(Gibbs free energy and equlilibrium, the van't Hoff equation, work and efficiency)

Lecture 14 (February 27th, March 4th and 11th)

(Introduction to oxidation and reduction, balancing redox reactions, galvanic cells, line notation, electromotive force, standard hydrogen electrode, cell potential, relationship to free energy)

Lecture 14 (March 11th)

(Relationship of cell potential to concentration, the Nernst equation)

Lecture 16 (March 11th and 13th)

(Batteries (lead storage and dry cell, both acid and alkaline), fuel cells)

Lecture 17 (March 13th and 18th)

(Electrolysis, corrosion, equilibrium constants for redox processes, refining of aluminum)

Lecture 18 (March 18th and 20th)

(Kinetics contrasted with thermodynamics, the differential rate law and methods for determination, method of initial rates, the integrated rate law derived for 1st and 2nd order reactions, half lives)

Lecture 19 (March 20th)

(Integrated rate law for zero-order reactions, pseudo-first-order conditions and rate constant, general method for rate-law determinations)

Lecture 20 (March 25th)

(Reaction mechanisms, elementary steps, molecularity, rate-determining step, collision model, Arrhenius equation, catalysts)

Lecture 21 (March 27th and April 1st)

(An introduction to the transition elements, location in the periodic table, electron configurations, oxidation states, variation of physical properties across the first row)

Lecture 22 (March 27th and April 1st)

(Transition metal complexes, Werner's experiments, ligands, isomers, nomenclature)