Welcome to Advanced Placement Chemistry!!

Take a look at the Course Syllabus.

Below is a list of topics that will be covered during the school year.  Click on the Unit to read notes from the chapter.

Unit 1 - Chapter 1
Introductory Concepts
Laboratory - safety, techniques, formal lab reports
Scientific method
Phases
Chemical and physical properties
Significant figures, measurements, and calculations
Separation and identification

Unit 2 - Chapters 2, 4, & 12
Compounds and Stoichiometry
Ions, names, and formulas
Balancing equations

Simple Reactions
Spectroscopy and Beer’s law
Atoms
Moles
Stoichiometry
Empirical and molecular formulas
Gravimetric and volumetric analysis

Concentration units

Unit 3 - Chapters 4 & 12
Reactions
Solutions
Electrolytes
Solubility rules
Net ionic equations
Precipitation reaction
Acid/Base reactions
Reduction-Oxidation reactions

Unit 4 - Chapter 6

Introduction to Thermochemistry
Heat and enthalpy
Physical energy and kinetic energy diagrams
Hess’s law
Calorimetry

Unit 5 - Chapters 2, 7, & 8
Structure of the Atom
History of the atom
Light’s wave properties
Quantum effects
Bohr’s theory
Aufbau principles
Electron configurations
Quantum numbers
Periodicity

Unit 6 - Chapters 9 & 10
Geometry and Bonding
Ionic bonding
Covalent bonding
Lewis dot structures
Resonance and formal charges
VSEPR
Valence bond model
(Molecular orbital theory)
Bond energies

Unit 7 - Chapter 5
Gas Laws
Minor gas laws (Gas variable relationships)
Combined and ideal gas laws
Dalton’s law of partial pressures
Kinetic molecular theory
Real gases and Van der Waal’s equation

Unit 8 - Chapter 11
Phases of Matter
Phases
Phase changes and heating/cooling curves
Phase equilibrium
Clausius-Clapeyron equation
Classification of solids
Phase diagrams
Vapor pressure
Intermolecular forces and their affects
Crystal structures

Unit 9 - Chapter 12
Solutions
Colligative properties
Saturation
Colloids and other mixtures

First Semester Review (key)

Semester 1 Review AP Problem Set (turn in)

Second Semester Research Paper

How to Research Effectively

Unit 10 - Chapter 13 (The Old Unit 12)
Kinetics
Collision theory
Rate definition
Rate laws
Initial rates
Intergrated rate laws
Half-life
Arrhenius equation
Transition theory
Reaction mechanisms

Unit 10 - Chapter 14
Equilibrium
Equilibrium constant (both in concentration and pressure)
Use of the quotient
Le Chatelier’s principle (verbally and mathematically)
Equilibrium constant’s relationship to Gibb’s free energy

Unit 11 - Chapter 18
Advanced Thermochemistry
Enthalpy (review)
Entropy
Gibb’s free energy
Gibb’s free energy relationship to the equilibrium constant

Unit 13 - Chapters 15 & 16
Acids and Bases
Acid-Base equilibrium
Acid dissociation constant and Base dissociation constant
Titrations and titration curves
Indicators
Salts and their acidic, basic, or neutral properties

Unit 14 - Chapter 17
Solution Equilibrium
Definition and uses of Ksp
Molar solubility
Predicting precipitation
Common ion effect
Complex ions

Unit 15 - Chapters 4 & 19
Electrochemistry
Oxidation-Reduction models
Balancing redox reactions
Voltaic vs. electrolytic cells
Predicting a cell’s direction of spontaneity
Cell potentials
Nerst equation
Quantitative aspects of electrolysis

Unit 16 - Chapter 24
Organic Chemistry
Nomenclature of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes with alkyl or halo groups
Functional groups
Common organic reactions

Unit 17 - Chapter 20
Nuclear Chemistry
Nuclear equations
Radioactive particles
Predicting spontaneous radioactive decay