AP Chemistry - Miami Beach Senior High School



AP Chemistry- 2003370

Course Syllabus

Mr. C. Rodriguez

CRod-MBSH@

Course Objectives:

1. This course is equivalent to a first year college chemistry class. Students should have already completed one year of high school chemistry.

2. You will be expected to devote extra time outside of class to read and prepare for exams and labs.

3. This class meets every other day for ninety minutes

4. The following books will be used in class:

Class Textbook:

“Chemistry, the Central Science” AP Edition, Brown- LeMay- Bursten

Published by Pearson Education Inc. 10th edition, 2006.

Labs are from the following lab manuals;

1. “Advanced Chemistry with Vernier”, 1st edition

By Jack Randall

Publisher: Vernier Software and Technology, 2004

2. “Chemistry with Calculators”

By Dan Holmquist, Jack Randall and Daniel Volz,

Publisher: Vernier Software and Technology. 2000

3. “Chemistry, The Central Science” 10th edition, Laboratory Experiments by John H Nelson and Kenneth C. Kemp, Brown-LeMay –Bursten, published by Pearson Education Inc. 2006

Course Requirements

1. Students must maintain a portfolio that includes all the lab reports. Lab reports are an important part of this class and will count as much as tests. Failure to complete lab reports will result in an incomplete for the course.

2. Tests will be given at the end of each chapter and will count as double grades.

3. Quizzes will be given weekly and will count one grade.

4. Homework assignment from the book will be collected weekly and will count as one grade.

5. AP Worksheets that include problems from old AP exams will be graded as a test.

6. A graphing calculator TI-83 or better will be needed for class. You must be adept at using this calculator in solving problems.

7. Students making a “5” or “4” on the AP exam will have their course grade raised to an “A” if necessary.

Laboratory Requirements:

This class includes a laboratory component. All students are required to participate and complete lab reports. These reports MUST include the following and must be typed:

A) Title Page

B) Purpose and Materials

C) Procedure

D) Data and Calculations

E) Conclusion.

Students will work in assigned groups during lab periods BUT each student is responsible for turning their own individual lab report.

Students will be expected to be able to measure data and use it in calculations to help support their conclusions.

The lengths of these labs will depend on the type of lab but the student can expect to be working at least two hours a week of class time in lab work and analysis.

First Quarter:

1. Review of Chemistry Foundations: (2 weeks)

A) Significant figures and uncertainties

B) Nomenclature

C) Balancing Equations

D) Limiting, Excess Reagents and percent yield

E) Percent Composition

F) Empirical and Molecular Formulas

2. Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Chemistry: Chapter 4

(2.5 weeks)

A) Molarity

B) Precipitation Reactions

C) Acid/Base Reactions

D) Redox reactions

E) Decomposition Reactions

F) Stochiometry of Solutions

G) Net Ionic equations

3. Atomic Structure : Chapter 6 (1 week)

A) Light and quanta

B) Bohr’s model of the atom and electron energies

C) Quantum numbers and orbitals

D) Aufbau, Pauli and Hund’s rule

4. Periodic Properties of the Elements: Chapter 7 (1 week)

A) Atomic sizes

B) Ionization energies

C) Electron affinities

D) Ion sizes

5. Bonding Concepts: Chapters 8,9,11 (2.5 weeks)

A) Types of bonds

B) Bond Polarity and Dipole moments

C) Lewis Structures

D) Exception to the octet rule

E) Resonance

F) VSEPR Theory

G) Hybridization

H) Intermolecular Forces

First Quarter Labs

Determination of a Chemical Formula Lab

Hydrate Lab

Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide

Determination of Concentration using Beer’s Law

Flame Test

Molecular Geometries of Covalent Molecules

Evaporation and Intermolecular Attractions

First Quarter Test

Second Quarter:

6. Gases: Chapter 10 (1 week)

A) Gas Laws

B) Kinetic Molecular Theory

C) Effusion and Diffusion

D) Real Gases

7. Properties of Solutions: Chapter 13 (1.5 weeks)

A) Energies of solvation

B) Factors affecting Solubility

C) Vapor Pressures and Raoult’s Law

D) Boiling point Elevation

E) Freezing point Depression

G) Osmotic pressure

H) Colligative Properties

8. Kinetics: Chapter 14 (2.5 weeks)

A) Reaction rates

B) Rate Laws

C) Determining Rate laws

D) Integrated rate laws

E) Reaction Mechanisms

F) Catalysts

9. Chemical Equilibrium: Chapter 15 (2.5 weeks)

A) Equilibrium Condition

B) Equilibrium Constants; Kc,Kp

C) Heterogeneous Equilibria

D) Equilibrium Problems

E) Le Chatelier’s Prnciple

Second Quarter Labs

Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid

Molar Volume of a Gas

Freezing Point Depression Lab

Rate Order of a Chemical reaction

Rate Determination and Activation Energy

Determination of an Equilibrium Constant

Le Chatelier’s Principle

Midterm exam

Third Nine weeks

11. Acids and Bases: Chapter 16 (2.5 weeks)

A) Acid strength

B) pH scale

C) Calculation of acid strength of strong and weak acids

D) Bases

E) Polyprotic acids

F) Acid/base properties of salts

G) Acid/Base Problems

12. Applications of Aqueous Equilibria: Chapter 17 (2 weeks)

A) Buffered solutions

B) Titrations and pH curves

C) Precipitation as pH is varied

D) Solubility Constant

13. Thermochemistry: Chapter 5 (2.5 weeks)

A) Three laws of Thermodynamics

B) Enthalpy and calorimetry

C) Hess’s Law

D) Heat of Reaction using Heat of formation

E) Heat of reaction using bond enthalpies

14. Spontaneity, Entropy and Free Energy: Chapter 19 (2 weeks)

A) Spontaneous processes and entropy

B) Free Energy

C) Entropy changes and chemical reactions

D) Dependence of Free energy on pressure

E) Free energy and equilibrium

Third Quarter Labs:

Standardizing a solution of sodium Hydroxide

Calculate the Ka of Acetic Acid

Acid-Base Titration

Prepare and Determine a Buffer’s capacity

Ksp of Calcium Hydroxide

Heat of Fusion of ice

Determining the Enthalpy of a chemical reaction, Hess’s Law

Third Quarter exam

Fourth Quarter

15. Electrochemistry: Chapter 20 (2 weeks)

A) Galvanic cells

B) Standard Reduction Potentials

C) Cell Potential, electrical work and free energy

D) Cell potential and concentrations

E) Batteries

F) Corrosion

G) Electrolysis

16. Nuclear Chemistry: Chapter 21 (1.5 week)

A) Nuclear stability and radioactive decay

B) Kinetics of radioactive decay

C) Nuclear Transformations

D) Detection and uses of radioactivity

E) Nuclear Fission and Fusion

F) Effects of Radiation

17. Organic Chemistry: Chapter 25 (1.5 weeks)

A) Naming of alkanes, alkenes and alkynes

B) Functional groups

C) Esterification

D) Polymerization

Fourth Quarter Labs:

Redox Titration

Voltaic Cells

Synthesis of aspirin

Review for AP exam

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