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10th Grade Chemistry Class Page

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10th Grade Chemistry Class Page

 

10th Chemistry Syllabus

 

Week of May 26

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
No class - Memorial Day

Exam will be Tuesday, June 3 at 10:30am.

100-300 points.

Exam topics:

- Thermochemistry (Ch. 6) - Hess' Law, calorimetry, specific heat

- Organic compounds

- Equilibrium (Ch. 13) - equilibrium constants, ICE problems, Le Chatelier

- Kinetics (Ch. 12) - rate laws, order of reaction

Also know ideal gas law, limiting reactant.

Tuesday
Exam Review
Practice problems: p. 277 #51, 62, 64 (second part).  Also, p. 632 #49, 68.  Also, p. 582 #33.
Wednesday
Exam Review
 
Thursday
No class
 
Friday No class
 

 

Week of May 19

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Specific heat problems

Demo: Decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using manganese dioxide as a catalyst

 
Tuesday
Demo with more concentrated hydrogen peroxide
 
Wednesday
Overnight Trip to Atlanta
 
Thursday
Overnight Trip to Atlanta
 
Friday Overnight Trip to Atlanta
 

 

Week of May 12

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Calorimetry Lab

- Determine the change in enthalpy for the reaction between nitric acid and sodium hydroxide

- Determine the specific heat of copper metal

Review for the test:

- Hess's Law problems

- on this page, you should be able to name 1a, 1b, 1d, 4, 5

Tuesday
Test on Hess's Law and Organic compounds
 
Wednesday

Specific Heat continued

Calorie vs. calorie

 None - good luck on your AP World History test tomorrow!
Thursday
Specific heat problems
Problems p. 277: #53, 54, 60, 63
Friday No class
 

 

Week of May 5

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Standard Enthalpy of Formation

Read 6.4

Problems p. 278: #79,80,81,82

Tuesday
Standard Enthalpy of Combustion
Read 6.5-6.6
Wednesday
Intro to Organic Chemistry
Problems p.1053: #25a and #27a
Thursday
Organic molecules cont.
Problem set due Monday
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Apr. 28

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Review of test

Le Chatelier's Principle demonstration

Cobalt Chloride ion reaction

Using heat, HCl, water, and Lead Nitrate to drive the reaction in different directions

None
Tuesday
Intro to Thermodynamics

Read 6.1 and first page of 6.2

Problem p. 277: #44

Wednesday
Enthalphy and Hess's Law

Read 6.3

Problems p. 278: #69, 70

Thursday
Hess's Law continued
Problems 1-6 on this page
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Apr. 21

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Review of test

Le Chatelier's Principle continued

Read 13.7

Problems p. 633: #66, 67

Tuesday
Le Chatelier continued
 
Wednesday
Review
Take-home problems due Thursday
Thursday
Ch. 13 Test
 
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Apr. 7

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
ICE problems

Read 13.5

Problems p. 630: #51, 52, 54, 58

Tuesday
More ICE problems
Problems p.633: #59, 61
Wednesday
Review

More sample ICE problems

Study guide

Thursday
Equilibrium Test
 
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Mar. 31

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Review Ch. 12 Test

Intro to Equilibrium

Read 13.1-13.2

Problems p. 630: #23, 25, 26

Tuesday

Equilibrium pressure constants

Conversion between K and Kp

Read 13.3

Problems p. 630: #29, 30, 31, 32

Wednesday

Heterogeneous Equilibria

Reaction quotients

Problems p. 631: #43, 44, 47, 48
Thursday
Equilibrium demonstration
Problems p. 631: #42, 45, 46
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Mar. 24

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Reacting HCl and Magnesium at higher temperatures- the reaction rate increases

Activation energy

Arrhenius equation

Problems p. 585: #61, 62, 63, 64

Read 12.6

Tuesday
Catalysts

Problems p. 585: #59, 65, 89

Wednesday
Review

More review problems with answers

Even more problems with answers

Thursday
Test on Chapter 12
 
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Mar. 17

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Kinetics Lab

Magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid reaction

For the first experiment that we did in class (the first of four reactions), find the amount of hydrogen gas we produced in milliliters.  Assume our lab has 1 atmosphere of pressure and a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius.

Tuesday

Field trip - no class

 

Wednesday
Rate law problems
 
Thursday

 

Reaction mechanisms

Read 12.5

Problem set:  p. 584: #45, 85

plus the problems on this page due on Monday

Friday No class
 

 

Week of Mar. 10

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Intro to Kinetics

Read Chapter 12.1-12.2

Problems p. 581: #27, 31, 32

 

Tuesday
Integrated Rate Laws

Read 12.3-12.4

Problems p. 582: #34, 35, 36

Wednesday
1st and 2nd order rate laws
Problems p. 583: #39, 41, 42, 48
Thursday
Zero-order rate laws

Problems due Monday, p. 582:

#40, 44, 50, 52 plus this problem:

 

The following data were obtained for the decomposition of N2O5 in CCl4. The following data were collected.

 

Time (s)

[N2O5] (mol/L)

0

1.46

423

1.09

753

0.89

1116

0.72

1582

0.54

1986

0.43

2343

0.35

 

a. What is the order with respect to N2O5?
b. What is the rate law for this reaction?
c. What is [N2O5] at 3.5 x 103seconds after the start of the reaction?

 

Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Mar. 3

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Test on Chapter 10 plus Radioactive Decay

 

Tuesday

Test post-mortem

The Chemistry of Radon and Bismuth

 

Wednesday
Intermezzo
 
Thursday
Intermezzo
 
Friday Intermezzo
 

 

Week of Feb. 24

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Viscosity, metal alloys, semiconductors

Graphite vs. Diamond

Intro to Radioactive Decay

Nt = N0e^(-k/t)

Carbon-14 has a decay rate (k) of .000124 per year.  If I start with 1500 atoms of Carbon-14, how many atoms will I have left after 5000 years have passed?

Tuesday
Half-life

Practice problems

Wednesday

Decay problems

Half-life activity

Problem set due Thursday
Thursday

Review

 

Test Monday on Chapter 10 and Radioactive decay
Friday No class
More practice problems

 

Week of Feb. 17

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
President's Day - no class

 

Tuesday
Review

 

Wednesday
Chapter 8 Test
Read 10.1
Thursday
Intermolecular Forces
Read section 10.2 and also section 10.5
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Feb. 10

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Molecular geometry of compounds and ions

Resonance

Chapter 8 test on Wedensday, Feb. 19

Graded Homework due Tuesday:

1. Predict the Lewis structure and geometry of the following compounds:

OCl2, AsF5, SeF6, XeCl2, ICl3, BH3

2. Predict the Lewis structure and geometry of the following ions:

Ammonium ion, BF4-

3. Problem 118 on p. 398 (ignore bond angles)

Tuesday
Polarity of molecules

 

Wednesday
Snow Day

Review problems for lewis structures, geometry, and molecule polarity (see bottom of page for sample molecules and links to answers)

Thursday
Snow Day
 
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Feb. 3

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Ionic and covalent bonds

Polar covalent bonds

Electronegativity

Dipole moments

Cadmium story

Read 8.3

Problems p. 394 #29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38

Tuesday

Ion sizes, intro to Lewis structures

Thallium story

Read 8.4

Problems p. 394 #44, 45, 50

Wednesday
David Hahn story - a Boy Scout project gone wrong

Read 8.10

 

Thursday

30-point quiz on 8.1-8.4 plus Lewis structures

Intro to VSEPR model

Read 8.13

Problem: Write Lewis structures and predict the molecular geometry of the following: OCl3, BeH2, KrF2, NF3, IF3, CF4, SeF4 .

Friday No class
 

 

Week of Jan. 27

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Review of Chapter 7

Practice problems 1-3

More practice with frequency and wavelength

Electron configuration problems

Periodic table trends practice

Tuesday
Test on Chapter 7

 

Wednesday
Snow Day

 

 

Thursday

Test post-mortem

Why do we spread salt on icy roads?

Freezing point depression

 Read 8.1 - 8.2
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Jan. 20

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
MLK, Jr. Day - no class

 

Tuesday

Review test

Introduce Periodic Table Trends

Read 7.12

Wednesday

Periodic Table Trends

Ionization energy

Read 7.13

 

Thursday

Periodic Table Trends

Alkali metals - reaction with water

Periodic Table videos of the alkali metals

Chapter 7 test on Tuesday
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Jan. 13

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Electron Configuration

The story of Lead (Pb)

Provide the electron configuration (both standard and abbreviated) and the electron configuration diagram for:

- Magnesium

- Silver

Tuesday
Futuristic technology

Problems p. 330, #41, 69, 76, 87 - these will not be collected but you should work on them in preparation for the quiz on Thursday.

Wednesday
Review
 
Thursday
Quiz on electron configuration, quantum numbers, and wavelength/frequency
 
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Jan. 6

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Wave-particle duality of matter

Dr. Quantum video

Electromagnetic spectrum

Read 7.1 - 7.2

Problems p. 330 #37, 38

Tuesday
Hydrogen spectrum problem

Read 7.3 - 7.4

Wednesday

Quantum Mechanics

Electron Configuration

Read 7.6 - 7.7

Problems p. 332 #70, 75

Thursday
Electron Configuration

Read 7.11

Problems p. 332 #77, 79, 80

Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Dec. 16

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

"Can Implosion" demonstration

Diffusion of Gases demonstration

Karate Chop air pressure demonstration

Review Graham's Law problems

Review Problems
Tuesday
Review for test

More review problems (try each problem before looking at the solution)

Wednesday
Test on Ch. 5
 
Thursday
   
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Dec. 9

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Phase Diagrams

liquid_co2.MOV

Read 5.5

Problems p. 228 #79, 80, 81, 82

Tuesday
Partial Pressures

Read 5.6

Wednesday
No class - PLAN testing
 
Thursday

Kinetic Molecular Theory

Graham's Law of Effusion

Read 5.7

Problems p. 230 #101, 103, 104

Chapter 5 test on Wednesday

Friday No class
 

 

Week of Dec. 2

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Go over exam

Intro to Gas Laws

Gas Simulation

Read 5.1-5.2

Tuesday

Boyle's Law

Charles' Law

Read 5.3

Problems

Wednesday
Ideal Gas Law
Problems p. 226 #47, 48, 51, 52
Thursday
Ideal Gas Law
Problem set due Monday
Friday No class
 

 

Week of Nov. 18

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Chapter 4 test

Exam study guide

Tuesday
Exam review

Modified Problem 57 solution

Wednesday
Exam review None
Thursday
Exam review None
Friday Trimester 1 Exam
 

 

 

Week of Nov. 11

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Titration lab

HCl and NaOH titration

Lab Report

Tuesday
Oxidation-reduction reactions

Read 4.9

Problems p. 175: #70, 73, 74, 83, 84

Wednesday
More redox reactions
Problems 2 and 3 on this page
Thursday
Review for test on Monday
 
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Nov. 4

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Review the test problems

Optional:  Complete these take-home problems and turn in by Friday to regain some points from the last test

Tuesday
Parent-teacher conferences - no class  
Wednesday
Parent-teacher conferences - no class  
Thursday
Intermezzo - no class
 
Friday Intermezzo - no class
 

 

 

Week of Oct. 28

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Go over practice problems

Precipitation Lab:  Potassium iodide and lead nitrate

Complete the dilution problems that I posted this past weekend (show your work, not just the answer).

Tuesday
Review dilution problems Do the problems on the first page of this worksheet.
Wednesday
Review for the test
 
Thursday
Test on Chapter 4 (4.1 - 4.7)  
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Oct. 21

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Molarity

Sulfuric acid - sugar reaction

Sulfuric acid - magnesium reaction

Do the 6 problems on this page (show your work on paper to support your answer) 

Tuesday

Molarity and stoichiometry

Precipitation reactions

Read 4.4-4.6.  Make an index card with the solubility rules on it.
Wednesday

Precipitation reactions

Lead nitrate - sodium chloride reaction

 Problems p. 173-174: #45, 46, 57, 58

Test on 4.1 - 4.7 on next Thursday

Thursday

Ionic and Net ionic equations

Study for test on next Thursday

Study Guide

Bring questions for review on Monday.

Dilution practice problems (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Precipitation practice problems and answers

More precipitation problems

Problem 57 Solution, Problem 58 Solution

Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Oct. 14

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Columbus Day - no class

 

Tuesday

Go over tests

Introduction to Solutions

Read pp. 130-136
Wednesday
PSAT - no class
 
Thursday

Molarity

Strong/weak acids and bases

Problems p. 172-173: #27, 33, 34, 38
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Oct. 7

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Empirical formula problems

Stories about Mercury (Hg)

The Periodic Table of Videos

Worksheet

Tuesday
Sample problems
 
Wednesday
Chapter 3 review
Complete take-home portion of test
Thursday

Test on Chapter 3

 
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of Sept. 30

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Reaction of the day:

Burning magnesium ribbon

Stoichiometry review

You should know how to:

- balance reaction equations

- calculate amount of product given a certain amount of reactant

- calculate how much of one reactant is needed to completely consume another reactant

- calculate percent yield

- express the concepts of limiting and excess reactants

Study for quiz - practice problems

Tuesday
Stoichiometry Quiz
 
Wednesday
Limiting reactants in Stoichiometry
Problems page 124: #109, 110, 111, 112
Thursday

Empirical formulae and percent composition

Read 3.6 and 3.7

Problems p.121: #67, 68, 77, 78, 81, 82

Friday No class
Test on Chapter 3 next Thursday

 

 

Week of Sept. 23

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Stoichiometry Lab

Lab report due Tuesday

Tuesday
Stoichiometry

Read 3.8 - 3.9

Problems p. 122-123: #93, 94, 99, 100

Wednesday
Stoichiometry

Read 3.10

Problems #3 and 4 from this page

Stoichiometry Quiz next Tuesday

Thursday

Thermite video

Stoichiometry

Read 3.11

More practice problems due Monday

Friday No class
 

 

Week of Sept. 16

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Test review sheet

Problems page 120: #61, 62, 65, 66

Tuesday
Test review
Study for test
Wednesday
Test on Chapters 1, 2, and part of 3
 
Thursday
Test review

Read 3.5-3.6

Test I Problem Set

Due Date:  Tuesday, Sept. 24

 

Instructions:  If you missed a problem on the test, complete the corresponding problems indicated below.

 

Test problem #6:  Do problems 59 and 60 on p. 72

Test problem #9:  Do problems 39 and 40 on p. 33

Any of Test problems #11, 12, 13, 14 : Do problems 59-64 on p. 120-121

Any of Test problems #16, 17, 18, 19 : Do problems 65-66 on p. 121

Friday No class  

 

 

Week of Sept. 9

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday

Review of sig figs

Isotopes

Periodic table

Problems p. 71:  #51, 52, 55, 56

Tuesday
The Mole Problems p. 120: #41, 42, 43, 44
Wednesday
Working with moles Problems p. 120: #49-58
Thursday
Mole lab activity
Test on next Wednesday
Friday No class  

 

 

Week of Sept. 2

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Labor Day holiday - no class
More practice on metric system if you need it: here and here
Tuesday

Quiz on metric system and conversions.

More significant figures.

Problems on p. 33:  #31 through #36.
Wednesday

Significant figures

Measurement

Problem on p. 33:  #38
Thursday

Accuracy and precision

Temperature

Density

Dalton's Atomic Theory

Read 2.1 through 2.4
Friday No class
 

 

 

Week of August 26

Day
In Class
Homework
Monday
Intro to Course
 
Tuesday

What is matter?

Basic units of matter - atoms and molecules

How small is an atom?

Atoms live forever (basically)

Check out this view of the periodic table.

Read 1.1 - 1.3

Wednesday

Measurement - SI units

Base units: meter, liter, gram, sec, degrees Kelvin

Prefixes to know: giga, mega, kilo, centi, milli, micro, nano

Introduction to Dimensional Analysis (aka Canceling is Fun)

Problems 1.39, 40

There will be a quiz on next Tuesday covering metric system and conversions.

(Individual atoms are measured in picometers.)

Thursday

Significant figures

Scientific notation

Go to this page and do problems until you get 10 correct.  Take a screen shot to prove that you did it and email to me.

Read 1.4 - 1.5 in text.


Friday
No class

 

 

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