Course Title and Assessment List:
Course Title: OER Based General Chemistry I
Assessment List:
Class Tests: 45% (3 exams)
Homework: 15% (9 homework assignments)
Reading Check:15% (reading assignments and quizzes related to each class)
Class Quizes: 5%
Comprehensive Final Exam: 20%
Chapter Learning Objectives for This Course:
1.2 Classify matter as an element, compound, homogeneous mixture, or heterogeneous mixture with regard to its physical state and composition
1.4 Perform basic unit calculations and conversions in the metric and other unit systems
1.6 Use dimensional analysis to carry out unit conversions for a given property and computations involving two or more properties
Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules and Ions
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
2.1 State the postulates of Dalton's atomic theory
2.3 Write and interpret symbols that depict the atomic number, mass number, and charge of an atom or ion
2.4 Explain the relation between mass, moles, and numbers of atoms or molecules and perform calculations deriving these quantities form one another
Chapter 3: Electronic Structure and Periodic Property of Elements
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
3.1 Use appropriate equations to calculate related light-wave properties such as period, frequency, wavelength, and energy
3.3 List and describe traits of the four quantum numbers that form the basis for completely specifying the state of an electron in an atom
3.4 Derive the predicted ground-state electron configurations of atoms
3.7 Determine formulas for simple ionic compounds
Chapter 4: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
4.3 Derive names for common types of inorganic compounds using a systematic approach
4.4 Draw Lewis structures depicting the bonding in simple molecules
4.6 Predict the structures of small molecules using valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory
Chapter 5: Advanced Theories of Bonding
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
5.1 Define and give examples of σ and π bonds
5.2 Determine the hybrid orbitals associated with various molecular geometries
Chapter 6: Composition of Substances and Solutions
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
6.1 Calculate formula masses for covalent and ionic compounds
6.2 Determining empirical and molecular formula
6.3 Describe the fundamental properties of solutions
6.3 Calculate solution concentrations using molarity
6.3 Perform dilution calculations using the dilution equation
6.4 Define the concentration units of mass percentage, volume percentage, mass-volume percentage, parts-per-million, and parts-per- billion (ppb)
6.4 Perform computations relating a solution’s concentration and its components’ volumes and/or masses using these units
Chapter 7: Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
7.1 Derive chemical equations from narrative descriptions of chemical reactions
7.1 Write and balance chemical equations in molecular, total ionic, and net ionic formats
7.2 Define three common types of chemical reactions (precipitation, acid-base, and oxidation-reduction)
7.2 Classify chemical reactions as one of these three types given appropriate descriptions or chemical equations
7.2 Identify common acids and bases
7.2 Predict the solubility of common inorganic compounds by using solubility rules
7.2 Compute the oxidation states for elements in compounds
7.3 Explain the concept of stoichiometry as it pertains to chemical reactions
7.3 Use balanced chemical equations to derive stoichiometric factors relating amounts of reactants and products
7.3 Perform stoichiometric calculations involving mass, moles, and solution molarity
7.4 Explain the concepts of theoretical yield and limiting reactants/reagents
7.4 Derive the theoretical yield for a reaction under specified conditions
7.4 Calculate the percent yield for a reaction
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
8.1 Define the property of pressure
8.1 Define and convert among the units of pressure measurements
8.1 Describe the operation of common tools for measuring gas pressure
8.1 Calculate pressure from manometer data
8.2 Identify the mathematical relationships between the various properties of gases
8.2 Use the ideal gas law, and related gas laws, to compute the values of various gas properties under specified conditions
8.3 Use the ideal gas law to compute gas densities and molar masses
8.3 Perform stoichiometric calculations involving gaseous substances
8.3 State Dalton’s law of partial pressures and use it in calculations involving gaseous mixtures
8.4 Define and explain effusion and diffusion
8.4 State Graham’s law and use it to compute relevant gas properties
8.5 State the postulates of the kinetic-molecular theory
8.5 Use this theory’s postulates to explain the gas laws
8.6 Describe the physical factors that lead to deviations from ideal gas behavior
8.6 Explain how these factors are represented in the van der Waals equation
Chapter Learning Objective for This Course:
9.1 Define energy, distinguish types of energy, and describe the nature of energy changes that accompany chemical and physical changes
9.1 Distinguish the related properties of heat, thermal energy, and temperature
9.1 Define and distinguish specific heat and heat capacity, and describe the physical implications of both
9.1 Perform calculations involving heat, specific heat, and temperature change
9.2 Explain the technique of calorimetry
9.2 Calculate and interpret heat and related properties using typical calorimetry data
9.3 State the first law of thermodynamics
9.3 Define enthalpy and explain its classification as a state function
9.3 Write and balance thermochemical equations
9.3 Calculate enthalpy changes for various chemical reactions
9.3 Explain Hess’s law and use it to compute reaction enthalpies
9.4 Describe the energetics of covalent and ionic bond formation and breakage
9.4 Use average covalent bond energies to estimate enthalpies of reaction