Course Learning Outcomes
- Predict the reaction products in gas state using ideal and real gas law,
- Determine the electronic transitions from the wavelength of radiation absorbed by an atom or emitted from an excited atom,
- Predict compounds that may form using the periodic table,
- Use the electron configuration of atoms and predict cation, anion and energetics (ionization energies, electron affinites),
- Write Lewis electron structures and predict geometry of molecules and their energy levels using various models,
- Use the phase diagrams to predict phase of matter; gas, liquid, solid or super critical fluid,
- Describe the arrangement of atoms in common cubic crystal lattices,
- Use the band theory to describe the bonding in solids,
- Identify intermolecular forces and compare colligative properties, boiling and melting points of substances,
- Describe the growth of polymers through addition and condensation reactions of monomers,
- Understand the first law of thermodynamics and analyze energy exchanges as work and heat,
- Use calorimetric data to obtain internal energy and enthalpy for chemical reactions
- Calculate the heat energy exchanged in a chemical reaction
- State the second law of thermodynamics to predict the spontaneity of a reactions,
- Use the tabulated data to predict the free energy and spontaneity of a reaction,
- Use the method of initial rates and graphical methods to determine the rate laws and predict the reaction mechanism,
- Write the equilibrium constant for experimental data,
- Calculate the equilibrium concentrations from initial concentrations using equilibrium constant,
- Calculate molar solubility from solubility constant,
- Calculate pH and degree of ionization for weak acids and bases,
- Write and balance oxidation-reduction reactions,
- Use the standard reduction potentials and calculate the cell potentials for standard and non-standard conditions,
- Calculte the amount of metal plated, the amount of current needed or the time required for an electrolysis process.