AP Chemistry

09-10

AP Chemistry is a full year of college freshman chemistry course designed for pre-med, pre-vet, and chemistry majors (8-13 college credits). What you are receiving now is a Xerox copy of the first three chapters of your text book. We will be covering most of the book this year. In the fall you will receive your text book, lab manual and a book for helping you pass the AP exam next spring. Many of the students this year found the most recent Barrons: AP Chemistry also very helpful in studying for the exam. Make certain your TI 83 type calculator is in good functioning order, you will be using it all year. Next fall you will need to buy a lab notebook (~$18) for keeping all of your labs. These lab notebooks often help you to place out of additional lab classes in college. The lab books are made with carbonless graph paper which allows the original copy to remain in the book and the copy can be turned in to me. The Science Honor Society will be selling them but if you see such while you are college hopping this summer you can pick up one from the college book store. The other supplies you will need will be a ruler (student planner ones work well), pens and pencils and a highlighter. You may also want a few file cards for making flash cards to help you memorize certain formulas and rules. The lab books are made with graph paper so you will not need graph paper.

Class schedule:

There will be one period scheduled for the AP Chemistry class. This will be a 90 min period that meets every other day. To supplement the time needed to adequately cover the material, students will have a summer assignment which will be a review of their first year chemistry. The class period will hopefully be at the end of the day so labs can run over into the after school activity period. This will help deal with labs that run longer than the 90 min. period. Students will be spending two to three hours a week working on labs. Students will also attend a bi weekly problem tutorial to be held after school. This supplemental period will be focused primarily on problems and calculations. This allows for some one on one tutorials, as well as support of the student study groups. These after school times will also allow for collaboration work on labs as well as the problem sheets.

Summer Assignment:

Summer outlines and problems will be due by the end of the second week of school in the fall. Feel free to use Chem Think as a review at any time.

Summer Assignment: Students are to read and take notes on chapters 1, 2, 3 of Zumdahl, the 6^th edition. They will also answer the questions for each chapter as specified.

Chapter 1, Topics: Scientific Method, Units of Measurement, Uncertainty in Measurement, Significant Figures Dimensional Analysis Temperature, Density and Classification of Matter

Review problems on pgs 31- 36, numbers 20, 21, 25, 28, 33, 47, 49, 57, 65, 66, and 68.

Chapter 2, Topics: History of Chemistry, Fundamental Chemical Laws, Dalton’s Atomic Theory, Early and Modern Understanding of the Atom, Molecules and Ions, Introduction to the Periodic Table, Simple Nomenclature.

Review problems on pgs. 74-77, numbers 22, 23, 24, 26, 43, 51, 57, 59 through 68, 70, 77, 35 through 38 and 42.

Chapter 3, Topics: Atomic Mass, the Mole, Molar Mass, Percent Composition, Determining the Formula of a Compound, Chemical Equations, Balancing Chemical Equations, Stoichiometric Calculations, Limiting Reactions.

Review problems on pgs. 1222 – 127, numbers 19, 20, 33, 35, 37, 51, 54, 75, 78, 86, and 93.