Assignments for Chem 1A – College of Alameda

Chem 1A Assignments (past, present, and future)

Chem 1A assignments will be posted here.

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Chem 1A Logistical Preparation, Questionnaire, and Email. This information will assist me in helping you succeed in Chem 1A at College of Alameda.

Access the website: http://mail.yahoo.com/ and create your own Yahoo email account for this course. This will allow you 1) to take advantage of online office hours with Yahoo Messenger and 2) to view rich text formatting in any Chem 1A emails. It is also a convenient way of keeping Chem 1A materials separate from spam and other emails.

Complete the following Questionnaire and send a simple email with the information (no attachments please) to:

peter_chem1a@yahoo.com with the subject line “Chem 1A Spring 2008”. Upon receipt, your email address will be added to the Chem 1A mailing list where you will typically receive Chem 1A news including links to homework, lab assignments, practice tests, etc. Be sure to include your essay in the email. Also, print this form and turn in hard copy (with a sample of your writing) in class.

Questionnaire for Chemistry 1A Section: AM PM (circle one) Course Code:

Name: Date:

Phone number: E-mail:

What country or state are you from? ____________ What is your native language? ________

List all college-level science and math classes passed with a C or better:

Course Where taken? When taken?

Substances, Measurements and Uncertainty

Access and begin the online stoichiometry review at Carnegie Mellon (1st item under “Links” at the Chem 1A home page).

Read Chapters 1 & 2 as soon as possible. Preview Chapter 3

Chapter 1 exercises:

Ch 1 (pp28-33): 1-51 odd, 57, 58 59, 60, 63, 69, 73.

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Dalton’s Atomic Theory, The Electron, The Nucleus, The Rutherford Atom, Ions, Compounds, Chemical Nomenclature.

Continue with online Stoichiometry Review by Carnegie Mellon.

Reread Chapters 1 & 2 as necessary. Read Chapter 3.

Chapter 2 exercises:

Ch 2 (pp65-73): 1-55 odd, 59,61,67,68,69,70,75,76,77,78,79,82,85,86,87,89,90,91,92, 95,97,98;

HW Handouts:

1) take home periodic table exercise;

2) nomenclature worksheet

(both stored on this website under “documents”)

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Mole Concept, Molar Mass, Mass to Mole Conversions, Percent Composition, Calculating Yields from Balanced Equations

Finish online stoichiometry review by Carnegie Mellon.

Ch3 (pp 110-119): 3-6, 9-12, 14-20 even, 22, determine mass percent of elements in 22-c, 27, 29, 34, 38, 43-51 odd, 59, 63, 64, 67-69, 71, 92, 103.

Old Chem 1A Test 2 (stored under “Documents” at this website).

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Reaction types: Precipitation, Acid-Base Neutralization, Redox; Concentration: molarity; Solubility Rules

Read Chapter 4 doing the sample exercises.

Problems: Ch4 (pp 157-165): 1-10, 20-54 even, 59-65, 67, 69-73.

Gas Laws, Ideal Gas Law, Molar Volume of a Gas, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures

Read Chapter 10 up through p. 420 doing the sample problems.

Problems: Ch10 (pp 433-436): 1-5, 9-11, 13-17, 21, 23-28, 29,

31-39 odd, 43-45, 48, 49, 50, 57, 59, 63

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Light, Matter, Waves, Particles, and the modern view of electronic structure called Quantum Mechanics

Reading:

Chapter 5 Section 5.1 (pp 168-170) on the nature of

energy up through the paragraphs on units of energy.

Chapters 6 and eventually 7 in their entirety doing

the sample exercises.

HW Problems:

Ch5 (pp. 204-205): 1, 9, 10, 11, 12

Ch6 (pp. 251-259): 1, 2, 9-18, 19-29 odd, 31-33,

35-38.

Ch6: 75-78, 47-59 odd, 60, 60-64, 66,67,71,72,73,74,

82,83,84,86,89,90,92,93,97

Ch7 (pp. 291-299): 3,4, 7-18, 21, 25-28, 31, 35-40,

53-55.

More Ch7: 42,44,51,52,56,57,67,82,91,94,96

optional (for fun): 104,105,106

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Chemical Bonding, Electronegativity and Polarity, VSEPR Theory for Molecular Geometry

Read Chapters 8 and 9 (except for MO theory) doing the example problems.

In Chapter 8 take “bond enthalpies” to mean “bond energies” (for now “bond energy” means the minimum energy necessary to pull atoms apart and break a bond). Also don’t worry about the Born-Haber cycle yet. And in Chapter 9 ignore section 9.7 (pp 373-385) on molecular orbitals (at least for now).

Problems:

Ch8 (pp 336-343): 1,3,4,5,7-12,13-19 odd,22,25

29-37,39-43,45-48,53,55,56,86 more later….

Ch9 (pp 388-397): 2,4,5,11-17,20,31,32,34,37,39

more later….

Additional Homework:

1. Print out and complete VSEPR worksheets (available in “Documents”) for Lewis Structure and VSEPR Geometry lab.

2. Download and install CHIME molecular viewing software as per email instructions.