Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Eight is Enough: Periodic Tables
- 3. Shape Matters: Molecular Shape
- 4. Electron Glue: Periodic Tables
- 5. Molecules in Motion: Ideal Gases
- 6. It's Just a Phase: Phase Changes
- 7. Attractive Molecules: Liquids
- 8. Big Molecules: Solids
- 9. Head-On Collision: Rates of Chemical Reactions
- 10. Make it count: Mass, mole, molarity, pH
- 11. Leftovers: Reaction Stoichiometry
- 12. Back it Up: Reversibility
- 13. Basically Weak: Equilibrium Constant
- 14. Special K
- 15. Neutral Territory: Acid-Base Reactions
- 16. How Resilient: Buffers
- 17. Like it or not: Solubility Equilibria
- 18. Finding Solutions: Solubility Product
- 19. Separation Anxiety: Separating Mixtures
- 20. Review
- 21. Point of view: Exchange of Energy
- 22. The heat is on: Thermal Equilibrium
- 23. Make it or Break it: Bond Energies
- 24. Compound Interest: Heats of Reactions
- 25. What a mess: Energy Dispersal
- 26. Which Way? Enthalphy vs. Entropy
- 27. How Far? Gibbs Free Energy
- 28. Make it Work: Heat and Work
- 29. Got Electrons? Redox Reactions
- 30. Energizer Bunny: Batteries
- 31. Feel the Power: Energy Sources
- 32. Review II
- 33. All Aglow: Light Energy
- 34. How Absorbing: Light and Color
- 35. Now You See: Spectroscopy
- 36. Photo Opportunity: The Subshell model
- 37. Breaking the code: Electron Configurations
- 38. Technicolor Atoms: Line Spectra
- 39. Housing Co-op: Molecular Orbitals
- 40. Dying to Know: Colorful Molecules
General Chemistry
Course Summary
This course is based on Chem 1A General Chemistry, Fall 2010 made available by University of California, Berkeley: Webcast.Berkeley under the Creative commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
This course covers stoichiometry of chemical reactions, quantum mechanical description of atoms, the elements and periodic table, chemical bonding, real and ideal gases, thermochemistry, introduction to thermodynamics and equilibrium, acid-base and solubility equilibria, introduction to oxidation-reduction reactions. It is taught in University of California, Berkeley by Angelica Stacy.
(28 Sept 2011 - Updated)
Reading Material
1. Textbook (UC Berkeley) - Chemistry: The Molecular ScienceJohn W. Moore, C.L. Stanitski, Peter C Jurs, Chemistry: The Molecular Science, 3rd Edition, Brooks/Cole
Course Material
Not available.Other Resources
1. Principles of Chemistry: The Molecular SciencePrinciples of Chemistry: The Molecular Science
John W. Moore, Conrad L. Stanitski, Peter C. Jurs
Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2009
ISBN: 0495390798, 9780495390794
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2. Introduction to Chemical Principles: A Laboratory Approach, Edition 7
Introduction to Chemical Principles: A Laboratory Approach, Edition 7
Susan A. Weiner, Blaine Harrison
Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2009
ISBN: 0495114790, 9780495114796
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