Vista Murrieta High School

Letters from 0809 AP Chem Students (Read through and listen to their advice!!)

Lab Instructions/Expectations(print and bring to the first lab class)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class Date	Lecture/Lab Topic(s)	HW Assignment(s)	Due Date
8/26/09 Late Start	Solubility Rules Test AP Rxn Question, Net Ionic Eqns, Combustion rxns, Synthesis Rxns	4.4-4.7 Focus Questions	9/1/09
8/28/09	Lab: Solubility--"What's In the Bottles?" & "How Do You Make Waste Useful?"	Formal Lab Report & Pre-Lab for Redox Lab	9/8/09
9/1/09	Acid-Base Reactions, Redox, Balancing Redox Rxns	Redox 1, Balancing Redox Rxns, Acid-Base and Gas Forming Rxns, 4.8-4.9 Focus Questions	9/3/09
9/3/09	Precipitation Rxns, The Tutorial and The OAD, Acid-Base Titrations	Tutorial (1st half of double replacement), OAD 2004, 4.10 Focus Questions, Precipitate Practice, Begin Titration Problems	9/10/09
9/8/09	Lab: Redox	Informal Lab Report and Study for Lab Test	9/16/09
9/10/09	Acid-Base Titrations Con't	Finish Titration Problems,Released FRQs, OAD 2003	9/14/09
9/14/09	Unit 2 Exam	5.1-5.3 Focus Questions, Tutorial (2nd half of double replacement), OAD 2002	9/18/09
9/16/09	Lab Test (empirical formula, solubility, redox)	Proposal for Gas Lab procedure	9/25/09

 

 

Unit Advice

Answers to Tutorial: Complex Ion Ions (first half) You had to do ALL problems but I could only find my answer key for the first half. Sorry.

Answers to Tutorial: Combustion (first half) You had to ALL problems but I could only find my answer key for the first half.

 

Optional Assignments: NChO-Gas Laws, Gas Law Online Simulation:  http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/1314F00/laboratory/GLP.htm, Practice Test

 

Unit 3 Exam Ver A with answers

Unit 3 Exam Ver B with answers

Unit 3 Exam FRQs with answers

Unit 3 Exam Data Analysis

 

Class Date	Lecture/Lab Topic(s)	HW Assignment(s)	Due Date
9/18/09	Pressure, Gas Laws	Focus 5.4, Pressure Units Problems, Boyle's Law Problems, Tutorial (All of Acid-Base), OAD 2001	9/22/09
9/22/09	Example Problems, Mole Fraction, Gas Collection Over Water, Complex Ion Formation (tutorial help)	Focus 5.5-5.6, Charles's Law Problems, Combined Gas Law Probs, Tutorial (All of Complex Ions), OAD 2000	9/24/09
9/24/09	Kinetic Molecular Theory, Root Mean Square Velocity, Effusion & Diffusion, Real Gases	Focus 5.7-5.9, Released FRQ, Ideal Gas Law Problems, OAD 1999	9/30/09
9/28/09	Lab: How Much Gas is Produced?	Formal Lab Report	10/14/09
9/30/09 Late Start	Unit 3 Exam	Focus 6.1, Tutorial (All of Combustion), OAD 1998	10/2/09

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class Date	Lecture/Lab Topic(s)	HW Assignment(s)	Due Date
11/5/09	Anhydrides, Bond Types, Lattice Energy for Ionic cpds, Bond Energy & Bond Length for Covalent cpds	Begin Study Q's, Tutorial: Anhydrides 1-12,OAD 1994, Bond Energy wksht	11/09
11/9/09	Lewis Structures (including exceptions to Octet Rule), VSEPR	Electronegativity wksht, Tutorial Anhydrides 13-24, OAD 1993, Lewis Structures wksht, continue Study Q's	11/12
11/12/09	Formal Charge and Resonance, Polarity, Hybridization	More Lewis Structures wksht, Released FRQs, OAD 1992, Finish Study Q's	11/18
11/16/09	Lab Test 2	Pre-Lab for Molecular Mass of a Volatile Liquid (Pre-lab assignment and in your lab book: sketch of setup, data table)	12/3
11/18/09 Late Start	Unit 6 Exam Part 1
11/20/09	Unit 6 Exam Part 2 Begin Unit 7	Begin Reading Ch. 10 (See Focus Q's, because we will be skipping some sections)	12/1

 

 

Optional Assignments: Ch. 10 Focus Questions, Practice Test

 

Class Date	Lecture/Lab Topic(s)	HW Assignment(s)	Due Date
11/20	Unit 6 Exam Part 2, Read about IMFs from Unit 7 notes	Complete all examples in Unit 7 notes up through Heating Curves, IMF wksht, Penny Labette (use the pipet given to you in class), Redox #1-20 (use the Stuff I Should Know handout--you will need to memorize the oxidizing/reducing reactants and products next semester.) Note: I will not cover these topics (IMFs through Heativing Curves) in lecture. Use the notes I gave you and your textbook. Most of this should be a review from gen chem.	12/1
12/1	Calculating Vapor Pressure, Phase Diagrams, Solids	Ch. 10 Study Questions, Released FRQs, OAD 1991	12/7
12/3	Lab: Molecular Mass of a Volatile Liquid	Formal Lab Report	12/16/09
12/7	Unit 7 Exam	Focus Questions 11.1-11.2

 

Unit Advice

Focus Questions 

Released FRQs (all answers are given, so I will not be collecting this)

 

Optional Assignments: Practice Test, NChO--Solutions

 

WINTER UNIT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ASSIGNMENT: Ch. 22 Focus Questions

 

Class Date	Lecture/Lab Topic(s)	HW Assignment(s)	Due Date
12/9/09	Types of sol'ns, van't Hoff factor, concentration calculations, Solubility	Focus 11.1-11.3, Concentration Calculations	12/11/09
12/11/09	Vapor pressure, Colligative properties	Focus 11.4-11.5, Released FRQs	12/15/09
12/15/09	Review for Final Exam (bring prep books, etc. to class)	Study for Final (released AP exam)
12/16/09	Final Exam Part 1 (FRQ section of released AP exam)	Ch. 22 Focus Questions--answer ALL questions (not just the problems) & the 4 handouts given in class	1/13/09
12/18/09	Final Exam Part 2 (Multiple choice section of released AP exam)	See above. O-Chem Test will be given on 1/13/2009 (the day we return from break).	1/13/09