Unit 1: Matter, Energy, & Measurement
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 1
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 2 Video 1: Classification of Matter and Mixture Separation Video 2: Measurements, Units, Significant Figures, and Dimensional Analysis Video 3: Dalton's Atomic Theory, discovery of atomic structure, discovery of subatomic particles, and isotopes! Video 4: Atomic Weights, Mass Spec, Periodic Tables Video 5: Molecular and Ionic Compounds Video 6: Ionic nomenclature with transition metals and polyatomics, acid nomenclature, molecular nomenclature, and organic nomenclature (simple alkanes and alcohols) |
Unit 2: Atoms, Electrons, and Periodic Properties
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 6
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 7 Video 1: Dual nature of electrons and Bohr Model Video 2: Uncertainty Principle, Wave Equations, Quantum Numbers, and Orbitals Video 3: Electron Configurations Video 4: Development of the periodic table and periodic trends Video 5: Properties of metals, nonmetals, metalloids, and group trends! |
Unit 3: Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 3
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 4 Video 1: Chemical Equations, Balancing Chemical Equations, Combination, Decomposition, and Combustion Reactions Video 2: Formula Weights, Molecular weights, and percent composition Video 3: Avagadro's Number, the mole, and basic mole calculations! Video 4: Finding empirical and molecular formulas, and combustion analysis! Video 5: Simple stoichiometry calculations Video 6: Stoichiometry of limiting reactant, excess reactant, and percent yield calculations Video 7: Solutions, Dissolving vs dissociating, electrolytes, and solubility rules Video 8: Metathesis reactions, writing molecular, completely ionic, and net ionic equations Video 9: Definition of acids and bases, strong vs weak, neutralization reactions Video 10: Oxidation and Reduction, Oxidation Numbers, Activity Series, and Displacement reactions Video 11: Molarity, Making solutions from solid and dilution Video 12: Solution Stoichiometry, titrations, and some calculations |
Unit 4: Chemical Bonding
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 8
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 9 Video 1: Ionic Bonding, Born Haber Cycle, Lattice Energies, and electron configurations of ions Video 2: Covalent Bonding, Lewis Structures, Electronegativity, and bond polarity Video 3: Drawing Lewis Structures, formal charges, and resonance Video 4: Talking about exceptions to the octet rule and bond enthalpies! Video 5: Talkin' about VSEPR Theory and finding bond angles! Video 6: How to determine if a molecule is polar or nonpolar Video 7: Valence Bonding Theory, hybridization, and sigma vs pi bonds Video 8: Basics of molecular orbital theory, bond order, formation of molecular orbitals, and para vs dia magnetism |
Unit 5: Thermochemistry
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 5
Video 1: Thermodynamics & Thermochemistry, First law of thermodynamics, internal energy, heat, work, and state functions Video 2: Enthalpy, Endothermic & Exothermic, Enthalpies of reactions Video 3: Calorimetry, heat capacity, specific heat, and example problems Video 4: Basic introduction to Hess' Law and practice problems Video 5: Enthalpies of formation, standard enthalpies of formation, and calculating enthalpy of reactions Video 6: Bond enthalpies, calculating enthalpies of reaction using bond enthalpies, and energy sources. |
Unit 6: Gases
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 10
Video 1: Properties of gases, pressure, pressure units, and manometers Video 2: Boyle's, Charle's, Gay-Lussac's, and avagadro's laws of gas behavior! Video 3: Ideal gas equation, molar mass and density, and stoichiometric problems Video 4: Dalton's law of partial pressures and mole fraction Video 5: Main tenets of kinetic molecular theory, average speed, and Graham's Law of effusion and diffusion Video 6: Real Gases, deviations from the ideal gas law, and the van der Waals equation |
Unit 7: Intermolecular Forces & Solutions
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 11
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 13 Video 1: Intermolecular forces, physical properties, states of matter, dispersion, dipole - dipole, hydrogen bonding, and ion - dipole interactions Video 2: Liquid properties affected by intermolecular forces. Focus on viscosity, surface tension, and capillary action Video 3: Defining phase changes, heating curves, and calculating enthalpy changes for phase changes Video 4: Describing vapor pressure, boiling, reading phase diagrams, and liquid crystals Video 5: Solutions, energetics of solutions, and solubility Video 6: Factors that affect solubility, solute-solvent interactions, pressure, temperature, and Henry's Law Video 7: mass percentages, ppm, ppb, mole fraction, molarity, and molality Video 8: Vapor Pressure Depression, Boiling Point Elevation, Freezing Point Depression, Osmotic Pressure, and colligative properties MATH Video 9: Colliods, emulsions, and Brownian motion |
Unit 8: Kinetics
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 14
Video 1: Introduction to Kinetics, factors that affect reaction rate: physical state, concentration, temperature, and catalysts Video 2: How to find and calculate average rate, instantaneous rate, and initial rate from data Video 3: Calculating concentration's effect on rate, finding rate laws, finding k, and k units! Video 4: Using experimental data to calculate the rate law and other various commonly asked problems. Video 5: 0th, 1st, and 2nd order integrated rate laws with practice! Video 6: More factors that affect rate: Temperature, frequency of collisions, orientation of molecules, and activation energy. Energy diagrams, Arrhenius equation, and relationship of temperature and rate constant. Video 7: Reaction mechanisms, elementary reactions, molecularity, intermediates, evaluating reaction mechanisms, deriving rate laws, and so much more! Video 8: Catalysts, functions, types, and how they affect reactions. Also a big practice problem! |
Unit 9: Equilibrium
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 15
Video 1: What is equilibrium, equilibrium expressions, and all about the equilibrium constant! Video 2: Calculating equilibrium constants and equilibrium concentrations using ICE tables. Also, what is the reaction quotient and what does it mean?! Video 3: All about Le Chatelier's Principle. Explanations of how do concentration, pressure, temperature, and catalysts affect equilibriums. |
Unit 10: Acids & Bases
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 16
Powerpoint 2: BLB Chapter 17 Video 1: Definitions of acids bases, Arrhenius acids, Bronsted-Lowry acids, conjugated acid base pairs, and relative strengths of acids and bases. Video 2: Autoionization of water, ion-product constant, Kw, determining if a solution is acidic or basic, and practice! Video 3: pH scales, relating pH and pOH, practice problems, and measuring pH Video 4: Strong acids and bases definition and practice problems Video 5: Explanation of weak acids and how they're different from strong acids, explanation of Ka, calculating Ka from pH, and percent ionization Video 6: Examples walking through ICE tables to solve for pH using initial acid concentration and the Ka value! Video 7: Using ICE tables to solve pH and equilibrium concentrations of polyprotic acids. Video 8: What is Kb? Calculating pH using Kb, and relating Kb and Ka. Video 9: Using ICE tables to solve pH and equilibrium concentrations of polyprotic acids. Video 10: What is Kb? Calculating pH using Kb, and relating Kb and Ka. Video 11: How to determine if a salt is acidic, basic, or neutral. Video 12: Explanation of what affect acid strength. In-depth look at: binary acids, oxyacids, and carboxylic acids. Video 13: Explanation and examples of Lewis acids and bases Video 14: How to use the common ion affect in ICE table problems Video 15: Defining buffers, how to make them, how they work, pH of a buffer, Henderson-Hasselbach equation, buffer capacity, and pH range Video 16: Calculating the change in pH by adding a strong acid or base to a buffer. How to calculate the amount of conjugate that needs to be added in order to make a buffer at a specific pH (there was a little hiccup, fun was had by all). Video 17: Explanation of titrations, equivalence point vs end point, and how strong acid/strong base titrations work Video 18: Weak acid base titrations, indicator usage and choice, polyprotic acid titrations, and example problems Video 19: Solubility Equilibria, Solubility product. Solubility product vs solubility, Calculating Ksp, common ion affect on solubility, and pH affect on solubility Video 20: Complex Ion formation and its affect on solubility, amphoterism, precipitation formation, and qualitative analysis of ions |
Unit 11: Thermodynamics
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Unit 12: Electrochemistry
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Powerpoint 1: BLB Chapter 20
Video 1: Description of electrochemistry, review of oxidation numbers, oxidation, reduction, and oxidizing/reducing agents Video 2: How to balance half reactions in acidic conditions Video 3: How to balance half reactions under basic conditions Video 4: Explanation of voltaic cells and how to describe them Video 5: Reduction potentials and how to calculate Ecell Video 6: Using reduction potential to predict which half reaction will occur at the anode and cathode, and ranking strengths of oxidizing/reducing agents. Video 7: Relating the ideas of Gibb's Free Energy and redox reactions. Converting between Ecell, G, and K. How to use the Nernst Equation! Video 8: Concentration cells explained, example problems calculating pH from voltaic and concentration cells Video 9: Explanation of practical application of electrochemistry: batteries, corrosion and electrolysis. |
AP Chemistry Exam Review Material
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