Chem 1201 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Know what is the atomic number, atomic mass, protons, neutrons and electrons Question:Describe the shapes of molecules H2S, CBr4, and PCl3 Question:Calculating types of bonding (ionic, covalent, nonpolar covalent) Question:Non – polar covalent bonds and polar covalent bonds and electron sharing Question:Know the structure and makeup of DNA and RNA, know what DNA replication, transcription and translation are and ribosomes role in protein synthesis. Question:Know what a protein is, its mak...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on . This document goes into detail about the basic concepts of chemical bonding, electron orbitals, what constitutes as a chemical bond, making ionic bonds, defining ionic materials, energy that holds ionic molecules together, lattic energies for some ionic compounds, qualitatively determining relative lattice energies, examples using lattice energy, what a covalent bond is, predicting why some atoms form covalent bonds, drawing lewis structures, using th...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on periodic properties of elements. This document goes into detail about periodic properties, core and shell electrons, the valence electrons dictate properties, effective nuclear charge, hydrogen and helium models, Zn increasing across a period, shielding, core electrons shielding valence electrons, Na, Zn changing as you increase n, rationalizing a basic model, trends, calculating electrons, approximating the size of atoms and molecules, Zeff affecting a...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on atoms, molecules, ions. This document goes into detail about the law of conservation of mass, the law of multiple proportions, John Dalton and the Atomic Theory of Matter, the discovery of the electron, Millikan Oil Drop experiment, radioactivity, the atom (circa 1900), the discovery of the nucleus, the nuclear atom, interpreting elemental entries on the periodic table, elements can have more than one isotope, atomic mass, using weight average calculati...

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on molecular geometry and bonding theories. This document goes into detail about understanding the shape of molecules, relating lewis structures to shapes, VSEPR dictates the orientation of groups around central atoms, defining terms for VSEPR, shape of the central atom, electron domain geometry vs. molecular geometry, electron domain geometries with 2, 3, and 4 domains around the central atom, molecular geometry, predicting bond angles requires knowing d...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on molarity. This document goes into detail about molarity, concentration can also be expressed in terms of mass, solutions can be defined by molarity and its parts, examples of calculating molarity, calculating the parts per million, examples, dilutions, dilution by adding water, reverse engineering a stock solution alloquot, combining solutions requires us to find total ion concentration and total volume, dilution by combining solutions, titrations being...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on empirical formulas. This document goes into detail about empirical formulas, calculating an empirical formulas from the percent composition, finishing calculations by turning moles into a mole ratio, what to do if the normalized ratios aren't whole numbers, how you can gat the molecular formula from the empirical formula, steps to determine molecular formulas from the percent composition, balanced equations giving ratios of quantitative information, mo...

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on molecular equations to complete ionic equations. This document goes into detail about molecular equations, simplifying complete ionic equations, practice making molecular equations, solubility as a qualitative test, acids as proton donors, bases as proton acceptors, strong and weak acids and bases, and acid base reactions/neutralization reactions form water and salt.

This is intro. to Chemistry class notes on . This document goes into detail about aqueous solutions being created by dissolving a substance in water, ionic molecules dissociating in aqueous solutions if they are soluble, water being an effective solvent, molecular compounds dissolving in water, the difference between a solution of ionic vs. molecular molecules, dissociation of soluble ionic molecules creating electrolytes, recap of ionic vs. molecular compounds, strong vs. weak electrolytes, cla...