CHEM 102/105 Section H1 Problem Sets

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For the most part, problems will be assigned from the textbook (Zumdahl Chemistry, 5th edition). Problem sets will not be graded, but you are strongly encouraged to do them. Worked solutions will be posted on the notice board outside W3-60 and on this website.

Problem Set 1

5.49, 5.53, 5.57, 5.61, 5.65, 5.71, 5.93(a-c), 5.93(d-f), 5.95

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

Problem Set 2

5.73, 5.79, 5.85, 8.25, 8.85(a,b), 8.85(c,d), 8.89, 10.35, 10.43

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

Problem Set 3

10.47, 10.49, 10.49(contd.), 10.63(a), 10.63(b)-(d), 10.73, 10.87, 10.87(contd.), 10.89, 10.89(contd.), 10.91

(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, Bragg's law)

Problem Set 4

15.81, 15.83, 15.91, 15.93, 15.99, 15.105, 15.109, 15.111

(Solubility, solubility product, complex ion equilibria)

Problem Set 5a

6.27, 6.31, 6.33, 6.37, 6.47

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

Problem Set 5b

6.55, 6.61, 6.89, 6.93

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

Problem Set 6

6.17, 6.21, 6.23, 6.37, 6.43, 6.45, 6.53, 6.71

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

Problem Set 7

16.33, 16.37, 16.43, 16.45, 16.55, 16.65, 16.71, 16.73, 16.85

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

Problem Set 8

17.29, 17.31, 17.33, 17.37, 17.45, 17.51

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

Problem Set 10

12.21, 12.25, 12.27, 12.31, 12.35, 12.39, 12.43, 12.53, 12.59, 12.73

(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, integrated rate law for zero-order reactions, pseudo-first-order conditions and rate constant, general method for rate-law determinations, reaction mechanisms, elementary steps, molecularity, rate-determining step, collision model, Arrhenius equation, catalysts)

Problem Set 11

20.21, 20.23, 20.25, 20.31, 20.33, 20.35, 20.37, 20.39, 20.41, 20.43, 20.45

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