My Space: Atomic Orbitals

Lecture Description

Course Description

Stoichiometry of chemical reactions, quantum mechanical description of atoms, the elements and periodic table, chemical bonding, real and ideal gases, thermochemistry, introduction to thermodynamics and equilibrium, acid-base and solubility equilibria, introduction to oxidation-reduction reactions.

Course Index

1. Chemicals: Molecules
2. Electron Glue: Chemical Bonds
3. Shape Matters: Molecular Shape
4. Molecules in Motion: Ideal Gases
5. It's Just a Phase: Phase Changes
6. Attractive Molecules: Liquids and Solutions
7. Big Molecules: Solids
8. What is Your Reaction? Chemical Reactions
9. Sextillion: Reaction Stoichiometry
10. Back It Up: Reversibility
11. Special K: Equilibrium
12. How Pushy: Le Chatelier's Principle
13. Finding Solutions: Solubility Equilibria
14. Too Full: Two-Phase Equilibria
15. Heartburn: Acids and Bases
16. Basically Weak: Weak Acids and Bases
17. Neutral Territory: Acid-Base Reactions
18. How Resilient: Buffers
19. General Chemistry Review for Midterm 2
20. Research Projects; Point of view: Heat Transfer
21. The Heat Is On: Thermal Equilibrium
22. Make It Or Break It: Bond Energies
23. Compound Interest: Heats of Reaction
24. What a Mess: Energy Dispersal
25. Which Way? Enthalpy vs. Entropy
26. How Far? Gibbs Free Energy
27. Chemical Energy and Work
28. Got Electrons? Redox Reactions
29. Energizer Bunny: Batteries
30. The Sun
31. General Chemistry Review for Midterm 3, Part I
32. General Chemistry Review for Midterm 3, Part II
33. All Aglow: Light Energy
34. Photo Opportunity: Subshell Model
35. Breaking the Code: Periodic Table
36. My Space: Atomic Orbitals
37. Technicolor Atoms: Light Spectra
38. How Absorbing: Light and Color
39. Housing Co-Op: Molecular Orbitals
40. Now You See: Spectroscopy
41. General Chemistry Review, Part I
42. General Chemistry Review, Part II