1) This is the website that accompanies your textbook. The "Ace the Test"
feature offers great practice/review questions.
http://college.cengage.com/chemistry/zumdahl/chemistry/7e/instructor_home.html
2) Here are links to two great on-line books that may be good resources for
you this year:
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Home.htm
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html
3) Check out this wiki site - it has everything you need to help you be
successful in class and on the AP Chem Exam!
http://apchemistrynmsi.wikispaces.com/
WEEK ONE:
1/7 PP: Thermochemistry I
Practice: enthalpy changes, calorimetry, Hess's law, heats
of formation, bond enthalpies
*****I cannot upload the all of the PP lectures because they are too
large. I will upload them as we cover the topics. The Thermo
PP's are available on the AP Chem Notes page.
1/8 Practice: heat stoichiometry, calorimetry, Hess's law, heats of
formation, bond enthalpies
1/9 Review: heat stoichiometry, calorimetry, Hess's law, heats of
formation, bond enthalpies
Topic 9: Quiz #1
*****Print Lab - Determining the Enthalpy Change of a Reaction
1/10 AP Lab #9: Determining the Enthalpy of a Reaction (due 1/17)
1/11 Topic 9: PP #2 - Thermodynamics
Practice: entropy and free energy
WEEK TWO:
1/14 Review: entropy and free energy
Discuss/practice: Born-Haber cycles, heating curves
1/15 Review thermodynamics
Topic 9: Quiz #2
Extra credit: Thermochemistry and thermodynamics
1/16 Topic 9: Practice Test
1/17 Turn in B&L test extra credit
AP Exam: Topic 9 - Thermochemistry
*****Look under AP Chem PP - there are 2 ppt for Coordination Chemistry
if you would like to have them when we go over them in class
1/18 Turn in Lab #9
Begin Topic 10: Coordination Chemistry
Pep Rally
WEEK THREE:
1/21 MLK Holiday
1/22 Advisement schedule
PP: Coordination Chemistry
Practice: naming coordination complexes
1/23 Junior meeting (2nd period)
Review: Coordination Chemistry
More practice: naming coordination complexes
1/24 Review: naming and writing formulas of coordination complexes
Topic 10: Quiz #1
Lab #10: Synthesis and Analysis of a Coordination Complex
1/25 Finish Lab #10 - due Friday 2/1
WEEK FOUR:
1/28 Practice: NIE reactions with coordination complexes (group competition
for quiz points)
1/29 Practice: NIE reactions with coordination complexes (group competition
for quiz points)
1/30 Review: coordination complexes - naming and NIE, noble gas
configurations of ions
Topic 10: Quiz #2
Introduce Topic 11: Organic Chemistry
1/31 PP: Organic Chemistry
Practice: naming hydrocarbons
2/1 Turn in Lab #10
Review: naming and drawing hydrocarbons
PP: functional groups of organic compounds
Practice: functional groups
Monday: Topic 11: Quiz #1
B&L extra credit due
WEEK FIVE:
2/4 Turn in B&L extra credit
Review and practice: organic compounds
Extra practice website:
http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/educmat/chm19104/organic_nomenclature_quizzes.h
tm
*****If you did not take the quiz (20 of you!), you must turn in Brown and
Lemay extra credit tomorrow or lose 25 points off of the quiz.
2/5 Topic 11: Quiz #1
Introduce: reactions with organic compounds
2/6 EARLY RELEASE SCHEDULE
Practice: reactions with organic compounds
2/7 AP Lab #11: Synthesis and Purification of an Ester (due 2/14)
2/8 Review: organic NIE
Topic 11: Quiz #2
Print Topic 13 Notes and bring to class on Monday!!!
REMEMBER: The National Chemistry Olympiad Review Day is Saturday, Feb 23rd,
from 8:30 - 12:15. Lunch will be provided.
Here is the link to the KSU campus map:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/admissions/pdfs/ksu_2d_map.pdf
The review schedule is:
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Equilibrium and Reaction Rates
9:45 AM - 11 AM Organic Chemistry, Isomers and Biomolecules
11 AM - 12:15 PM Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry
WEEK SIX:
2/11 Turn in Topic 13 Notes
PP: Equilibrium I
Practice: equilibrium exressions, equilibrium constant, calculating Keq,
Kc, and Kp
Finish Equilibrium I problems #6-12 - due tomorrow
2/12 Turn in Equilibrium I problems #6-12
Review: equilibrium exressions, equilibrium constant, calculating Keq,
Kc, and Kp
PP: Equilbrium II
Practice: manpulating Keq, calculating the reaction quotient Q,
predicting Le Chatelier's shifts
2/13 Review: equilibrium exressions, equilibrium constant, calculating Keq,
Kc, and Kp, manpulating Keq, calculating the reaction quotient
Q, predicting Le Chatelier's shifts
Club Picture Day
2/14 Turn in Lab #11
Topic 13: Quiz #1
PP: Equilbrium III
Practice: equilibrium and Gibbs free energy
2/15 Review: equilibrium and Gibbs free energy
PP: equilibrium and solubility
Practice: calculating Ksp
2/18 - 2/22 WINTER BREAK
WEEK SEVEN:
2/25 Review all of Equilibrium I and II
2/26 PP: Equilibrium III
Practice: equilibrium and Gibbs free energy, calculating Ksp
2/27 Practice: equilibrium and solubility product constant
2/28 Topic 13: Quiz #2
Practice Test: Topic 13
3/1 AP Lab #13: Determination of an Equilibrium Constant
WEEK EIGHT:
3/4 Review all Equilibrium concepts
Finish Practice Test: Topic 13
3/5 AP Exam: Topic 13 - Equilibrium
Topic 14 notes due Thursday
*****There will be test corrections during the first 20 minutes of
class on Thursday, 3/7*****
3/6 SUB today - Ms. Day will review lab with you
AP Lab #13: Determination of an Equilibrium Constant (Due Monday, 3/11)
3/7 Topic 13 TEST CORRECTIONS
Turn in Topic 14 Notes
Introduce Acids and Bases
PP: Acid/Base I
Practice: conjugate acid/base pairs, strengths of acids and bases,
ionization of water
3/8 Review: acid/base definitions, conjugate acid/base pairs, strengths of
acids and bases, auti-ionization of water
PP: Acids and Bases II
Practice: Ka and Kb, pH and pOH, polyprotic acids
Quiz Monday: Acids/bases I and II
WEEK NINE:
3/11 Review: acid/base definitions, conjugate acid/base pairs, strengths of
acids and bases, auti-ionization of water
PP: Acids and Bases II
Practice: Ka and Kb, pH and pOH, polyprotic acids
Quiz tomorrow: Acids/bases I and II
3/12 Quiz : Acids/bases I and II
PP: Acids and bases III
Practice: acid-base reactions (Question 4 - AP EXAM), pH and soluble
salts
3/13 Review: acid-base reactions (Question 4 - AP EXAM), pH and soluble salts
PP: Acids and Bases IV
Practice: common ion effect, buffered solutions, solubility and pH,
complex ion formation
3/14 Review and practice: common ion effect, buffered solutions, solubility
and pH, complex ion formation
3/15 TEACHER WORKDAY - STUDENT HOLIDAY
WEEK TEN: EARLY RELEASE at 2:30 every day this week
3/18 Review and practice: common ion effect, buffered solutions,
solubility and pH, complex ion formation
3/19 PP: Acids/Bases V
Practice: Acid-Base titrations, strong/weak acids and bases,
equilibrium, buffers, titration curves, polyprotic acids, indicators
3/20 PP: Acids/Bases V
Practice: Acid-Base titrations, strong/weak acids and bases,
equilibrium, buffers, titration curves, polyprotic acids, indicators
*****NChO Exam after school (2:30-4:30)*****
3/21 Review/additional practice: Acid-Base titrations, strong/weak acids
and bases,equilibrium, buffers, titration curves, polyprotic acids,
indicators
3/22 AP Lab #14: Determining Concentration by Acid/Base Titration -
Analysis of Vinegar (due Friday, 3/29)
WEEK ELEVEN:
3/25 Review Topic 14 concepts
Topic 14: Practice Test
3/26 AP Exam: Topic 14 - Acid/Base Equilibria
Topic 15 Notes due tomorrow
3/27 Turn in Topic 15 Notes
PP: Kinetics I
Practice: reaction rates, order of reactions, rate laws, integrated
rate laws, half-life of a reaction
3/28 Review and practice: reaction rates, order of reactions, rate laws,
integrated rate laws, half-life of a reaction
3/29 Topic 15: Quiz #1
PP: Kinetics II
Practice: factors affecting reaction rates, activation energy,
reaction mechanisms, catalysis
WEEK TWELVE:
4/1 Review and practice: factors affecting reaction rates, activation
energy, reaction mechanisms, catalysis
4/2 AP Lab #15: Determining the Rate and Order of a Decomposition Reaction
(due Monday, 4/15)
4/3 Review Topic 15 concepts for exam on Friday
4/4 No class - SADD presenttion in the auditorium
4/5 AP Exam: Topic 15 - Kinetics
Topic 16 notes due Monday, 4/15
*******************HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE SPRING BREAK************************
WEEK THIRTEEN:
4/15 Introduce Electrochemistry
PP: Electrochem I
Practice: galvanic cells, voltage, standard reduction potentials,
standard cell potentials
4/16 Turn in Topic 16 Notes/Outline
Finish PP: Electrochem I
Review: galvanic cells, voltage, standard reduction potentials,
standard cell potentials
PP: Electrochem II
Practice: spontaneous redox reactions, Gibbs free energy, Nernst
equation, concentration cells, electrolytic cells
4/17 AP Lab #16: Determination of an Electrochemical Series (due 4/24)
4/18 Review and practice: galvanic cells, voltage, standard reduction
potentials, standard cell potentials,spontaneous
redox reactions, Gibbs free energy, Nernst
equation, concentration cells, electrolytic cells
4/19 Topic 16: Practice Test
WEEK FOURTEEN:
4/22 AP Exam: Topic 16 - Electrochemistry
4/23 Introduce Topic 17 - Colligative Properties
4/24 Continue with Colligative Properties
4/25 Finish Colligative Properties
4/26 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #1: Free Response
WEEK FIFTEEN:
4/29 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #1: Multiple Choice
4/30 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #2: Free Response
5/1 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #2: Multiple Choice
5/2 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #3: Free Response
5/3 AP Chemistry Mock Exam #3: Multiple Choice
WEEK SIXTEEN
5/6 AP CHEMISTRY EXAM!!!
5/7 Break - recover from AP Chem "March of Death"
5/8 Study for AP LANG EXAM or make up missing work from AP Chem
5/9 English Lit EOCT
5/10 AP LANG EXAM
WEEK SEVENTEEN:
5/13 Study for APUSH EXAM or make up missing work from AP Chem
*****Sorry - Ihad to switch plans for Monday and Tuesday - I have to
proctor the AP Bio Exam on Monday*****
5/14 AP Exam: Your choice!
Topic 16: Electrochem -OR- Topic 17: Colligative Properties
(or you may exempt if you use one of your "drop lowest test grade")
5/15 APUSH EXAM
5/16 US History EOCT
5/17 2nd annual AP Chemistry vs AP Physics Breakfast and Kickball Tournament
WEEK EIGHTEEN:
5/20 EC: Napoleon's Button's - due
Review for AP Chem Final Exam
5/21 Review for AP Chem Final Exam
5/22 Review for AP Chem Final Exam
5/23 No class
5/24 FINAL EXAM: AP Chemistry
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You have completed the AP Chemistry "March of Death", as
well as a very tough and demanding Junior year. Regardless of your score on
the AP Chem Exam, I am so proud of all of you. Enjoy your summer and get
some much needed rest. I'll missing having each of you in class next year,
but I know you are moving on to new challenges. Best of luck in your SENIOR
year!