Instructor: Alison Wang
Hi everyone! My name is Alison Wang, and I’m a current full IB student about to enter grade 12 this fall at Western Canada High School! I’m extremely passionate about the sciences, especially chemistry—I was a bronze medalist two years in a row for the Canadian Chemistry Olympiad, and received a special merit award for this year’s Canadian Chemistry Contest—and I really love talking to people about science (it’s about all I do as a science club exec). I’m so excited to be working with you all on the concepts covered in Chem 20, and I hope you’ll walk out of these classes with the knowledge needed to succeed in the course when you do take it!
Course Outline
Class 1
- chemical bonds
- ionic bond j
- Naming conventions
- covalent bond
- Naming conventions
- Metallic bond (mostly supplementary)
- ionic bond j
- Electronegativity
- Trends in atoms
- Can go further and explain Ionization Energy/effective nuclear charge
- Representing Chemical Bonds
- Drawing dot structures
- Drawing molecule structures
- Polarity
- Structures
- valence electron
- Lewis Structures
Class 2
- intramolecular and intermolecular forces
- hydrogen bonds (between NOF lone pairs and H)
- Dipoles
- London/van der waals forces
- valence-shell electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory
- shapes
Class 3
- Celsius and Kelvin temperature scales
- Boyle’s law
- Charle’s law
- Gay-Lussac’s law
- ideal gas law
- standard temperature and pressure (STP)
- standard ambient temperature and pressure (SATP)
Class 4
- absolute zero
- real and ideal gases
- law of combining volumes
- KMT
Class 5
- homogeneous mixtures
- Solubility
- electrolyte/nonelectrolyte
- Acids and Bases
- Arrhenius (modified) theory of acids and bases
- Concentration
- Ppm, ppb, molarity, molality
Class 6
- Strength
- strong acids and bases
- weak acids and bases
- Conjugate seesaw
- pH/pOH calculations
- monoprotic/polyprotic acid
- monoprotic/polyprotic base
Class 7
- chemical reaction equations
- Balancing
- Basic reaction types
- Decomposition
- replacement/displacement
- Precipitates, single and double displacement
- Neutralisation
- Acid/base reactions refresher
- Synthesis
- Combustion
- net ionic equations
- spectator ions
Class 8
- reaction stoichiometry
- limiting and excess reagents
- actual, theoretical and percent yield
- Titration
- end point
- equivalence point
- titration curves for strong acids and bases
- Can go further and explore titration curves for weak acids and bases
Date & Time
- July 3-August 21, 2024
- Every Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm
- Cost: Free
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