CH 200 - Chemistry I

• Plan and create structured experiments
• Write proficiently in technical communications
• In a laboratory experiment, identify potential procedural errors
• Differentiate between precision and accuracy
• Interpret data to isolate trends
• Use the periodic table to determine electron configurations, trends in atomic radii, trends in ionic radii, ionization energy, electron affinity, and electronegativity
• Describe the formation and properties of ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding, including Lewis dot structures
• Predict Lewis dot structures, molecular geometry, and molecular polarity for molecules and polyatomic ions
• Compare melting points, solubility and other physical properties for molecules using intermolecular forces
• Apply the law of conservation of mass to solve stoichiometric problems, including limited reagent problems
• Employ the gas laws, the kinetic theory of gases and gas stoichometry
• Explain the energy considerations in material changes, both physical and chemical
• Use solution chemistry, including molarity, dilutions, pH, acid-base properties

• One year high school chemistry

• Classification and properties of matter, atomic structure, periodic relationships, etc.
• Chemical bonding, Lewis dot structure, molecular geometry and dipole moments and intermolecular forces
• Gases
• Mass and enthalpy relationships in chemical reactions
• Solutions, molarity, pH

• Physical and chemical changes
• Density
• Properties of solids (ionic, molecular, metallic)
• Solution concentration and Beer’s law
• Identification of a molecular unknown (intermolecular forces)
• Determination of the atomic mass of aluminum (gas laws)
• Determination of the enthalpy of a reaction
• Molecular geometry and bonding
• Stoichometry and limiting reactants