Instruction Mode: In-Class
Professor: Multiple Professors
Resource(s): | | Type | Description | | Required | Other | Quinn, N and Hayes, T (2014). Chemistry Laboratory Manual General Arts and Science - Health Courses; Introductory Chemistry I CHEM17370 and Introductory Chemistry II CHEM29402. |
| Required | Textbook | Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation, Steven Zumdahl and Donald DeCoste, Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 9th edition, 2018 |
Applicable student group(s): This course is intended for students in the Pre-Health Sciences Pathway to Advanced Diplomas and Degrees One-Year Certificate.
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Module 1
Unit 1 - Week 1:
Lecture: Introduction to course and expectations addressed.
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Chemistry - Introduction
to chemistry, scientific method, relationship of
chemistry to other health sciences and industry. End of
chapter problems.
Case study: Application of Scientific Method.
Chapter 2: Measurements and Calculations - Scientific
notation, measurement and uncertainty, significant figures,
metric system, measuring mass, volume, temperature and
density.
End of chapter problems.
Assignments commence (15%)
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Unit 2 - Week 2:
Lecture: Chapter 3: Matter - Physical and chemical properties and
changes, elements and compounds, mixtures and pure
substances. End of chapter problems.
Chapter 4: Elements, Atoms, and Ions - Names and symbols of
the elements, Dalton's atomic theory, formulas of compounds,
structure of the atom, modern atomic theory, isotopes, ions,
introduction to the periodic table, elements natural states,
compounds that contain ions. End of chapter problems.
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Module 2
Unit 3 - Week 3:
Laboratory: #1 - Measurements. (4.17%)
Lecture: Chapter 5: Nomenclature - Common and systematic names,
elements and ions, writing formulas from names of ionic
compounds, naming binary compounds, naming compounds with
polyatomic ions and acids. End of chapter problems.
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Unit 4 - Week 4:
Laboratory: #2 - Laboratory Techniques. (4.17%)
Lecture: Review for Test #1 - Chapters 1-5.
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Module 3:
Unit 5 - Week 5:
Test #1 (20%) - Chapters 1-5.
Lecture: Chapter 6: Chemical Reactions - Chemical equations,
balancing chemical equations. End of chapter problems.
Chapter 7: Reactions in Aqueous Solutions, Predicting
reactions, reactions that form solids, reactions that form
water, metals and non-metals, ways to classify reactions.
End of chapter problems.
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Unit 6 - Week 6:
Lecture: Chapter 8: Chemical Composition, Atomic masses, the mole,
molar mass of compounds, percent composition of compounds,
calculating empirical formulas, calculating molecular
formulas. End of chapter problems.
Chapter 9: Chemical Quantities - Introduction to
stoichiometry, mole-mole calculations, mole-mass
calculations, mass-mass calculations, limiting reactants and
yield calculations. End of the chapter problems.
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Module 4:
Unit 7 - Week 7:
Laboratory: #3 - Physical Properties Experiment. (4.17%)
Lecture: Chapter 10: Energy - Temperature and heat, exothermic and
endothermic processes, thermodynamics, measuring energy
changes, thermochemistry, Hess's law, energy and our world.
End of chapter processes
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Unit 8 - Week 8:
Laboratory: #4 - Simplest Formula Experiment. (4.17%)
Lecture: Review for Test #2 - Chapters 6-10.
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Module 5:
Unit 9 - Week 9:
Test #2 (20%) - Chapters 6-10.
Lecture: Chapter 11: Modern Atomic Theory, History, electromagnetic
radiation, the Bohr atom, energy levels of electrons,
hydrogen orbitals, atomic structures of the first 18
elements, electron structures and the periodic table.
End of chapter problems.
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Unit 10 - Week 10:
Laboratory: #5 - Quantitative Preparation of Sodium Chloride (4.17%)
Lecture: Chapter 12: Chemical Bonding - Types of bonds, periodic
trends in atomic properties, Lewis structures of atoms,
ionic bonds, predicting formulas of ionic compounds,
covalent bonds, electronegativity, Lewis structures of
compounds, molecular shape and VSEPR.
End of chapter problems.
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Module 6:
Unit 11 - Week 11:
Laboratory: #6 - Lewis Structures and Molecular Models. (4.17%)
Lecture: Chapter 13: Gases - General properties, measurement of
pressure of gases, dependence of pressure on number of
molecules and temperature, Boyle's Law, Charles Law, Gay-
Lussac's Law, Combined Gas Laws, Dalton's Law of Partial
Pressure, Avogadro's Law, mole-mass-volume relations of
gases, density of gases, ideal gas law, gas stoichiometry.
End of chapter problems.
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Unit 12 - Week 12:
Lecture: Chapter 14: Liquids and Solids - Evaporation, vapor
pressure, surface tension, boiling point, freezing or
melting point, changes of state, the hydrogen bond,
hydrates, water. End of chapter problems.
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Module 7:
Unit 13 - Week 13:
Lecture: Review for Test #3 - Chapters 11-14.
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Unit 14 - Week 14:
Test #3 (20%) - Chapters 11-14.
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