Gathered here are copies of course handouts, materials related to unit exams (including practice exams), answer keys for worksheets, useful websites, and video clips.

Course Handouts

• General Handouts
• abbreviated syllabus
• what the health professions and graduate programs request in letters of recommendation
• Unit I: Thermodynamics
• notes on types of chemical reactions
• solubility rules
• oxidation states
• typical calorimetry data
• additional calorimetry data
• comparing heats of atom combination and heats of formation
• selected heats of formation and entropy values
• selected heats of formation, entropies, and free energies of formation
• selected reduction potentials
• Unit II: Equilibria
• types of equilibrium reactions and constants
• Unit III: Kinetics
• integrated rate laws and half-lives

Answers to Suggested Problems From Textbook

• Unit I: Thermodynamics
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 16
• Unit II: Equilibria
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Unit III: Kinetics
• Chapter 17

Answer Keys for Worksheets and Take-Home Assignments

• Reviews
• review of basic mathematics
• Chem 170 review
• take-home 01
• Unit I: Thermodynamics
• cooling of metals
• enthalpy of atom combination
• enthalpy of diluting a strong acid
• enthalpy wrap-up
• thermodynamics of the formation of SO₃
• predict the sign of thermodynamic parameters
• thermodynamics of peroxide's decomposition
• take-home 02
• take-home 03
• take-home 04
• Unit II: Equilibria
• thermodynamics and equilibria
• le châtelier's principle
• acid-base properties of a pharmaceutical compound
• buffers and pH
• characterizing a TRIS buffer
• more buffer problems
• designing buffer
• practice problem on designing a buffer
• take-home 05
• take-home 06
• Unit III: Kinetics
• kinetics of the hydrolysis of urea-Part I
• exploring rate laws
• kinetics of the hydrolysis of urea-Part II
• a pseudo-order kinetic analysis
• finding a rate law using the method of initial rates
• kinetics of oxidation of fe(II) to fe(III)
• thermodynamics and kinetics

Unit Exams

• Unit I: Thermodynamics
• review sheet
• thermodynamics: the big picture
• practice exam (key)
• unit exam (key)
• Unit II: Equilibria
• review sheet
• equilibria: the big picture
• practice exam (key)
• Unit III: Kinetics
• review sheet
• kinetics: the big picture
• practice exam (key)
• Final Exam
  • review of thermodynamics
  • review of equilibrium chemistry
  • review of kinetics

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