Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Eight is Enough: Chemical Bonds
- 3. Electronic Glue: Bonding Types
- 4. Molecular Shapes
- 5. Molecules in Motion: Ideal Gases
- 6. It's Just a Phase: Real Gases
- 7. Attractive Molecules: Liquids and Solutions
- 8. Big Molecules: Solids
- 9. Review I
- 10. Got Electrons? Chemical Reactions
- 11. 602 Sextillion: Reaction Stoichiometry
- 12. Back it Up: Reversibility
- 13. Special K Equilibrium
- 14. How Pushy: LeChatelier's Principle
- 15. Too Full: Two Phase Equilibria
- 16. Finding Solutions: Solubility Equilibria
- 17. Heartburn: Acids and Bases
- 18. Basically Weak: Weak Acids and Bases
- 19. Neutral Territory - Acid-Based Reactions
- 20. How Resilient: Buffers
- 21. Research Project
- 22. Point of View - Heat Transfer
- 23. The Heat is on Heat Capacity
- 24. Fuelish Choices: Heats of Reaction
- 25. Make It or Break It: Bond Energy
- 26. Get Over It: Reaction Rates
- 27. What a Mess: Energy Dispersal
- 28. Which Way: Enthalpy vs. Entropy
- 29. How Far: Gibbs Energy
- 30. Make It Work: Heat and Work
- 31. Feel the Power: Energy Sources
- 32. Review II
- 33. How Absorbing: Light and Color
- 34. Technicolor Atoms: Models of the Atom
- 35. Electron Clouds: Quantum Model
- 36. My Space: Atomic Orbitals
- 37. Breaking the code: Periodic Table
- 38. Housing Co-op: Molecular Orbitals
- 39. Dying to Know: Dye Molecules
- 40. Colorful Cations: Transition Metals
- 41. Now You See: Spectroscopy
- 42. Photosynthesis Energy Biosciences - Guest Lecture: Professor Fleming
- 43. Final Review
General Chemistry
Course Summary
This course is based on Chem 1A General Chemistry, Fall 2007 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 a group of lecturers: Angelica Stacy, Marcin Majda, Kristy Boering and Michelle Douskey.
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
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