Accelerated Chemistry is an elective one-semester course designed to cover the most important theories and topics in general inorganic chemistry. Comprised of lectures, demonstrations, problem solving and laboratory experiments, Chemistry B prepares students for further study of the science of chemistry other sciences, engineerining, medicine, and other related fields at the university level. In addition, work in this course will aid in the preparation for placement or proficiency exams.

Chapter Assignments:

• Read each assigned chapter.
• Work on all of the odd exercises at the end of the chapter for practice.
• Do the assigned extra credit writing before the exam.
• Chapter exam or project every Tuesday.

Assignment One:

• Read Chapter 4
• For extra credit, write an essay on Berzelius' contribution to the advancement of stoichiometry. Try to use a primary source if possible.

Assignment Two:

• Read Chapter 11
• For extra credit, write an essay on one of the early pneumatic chemists (Boyle, Black, Cavendish, Henry, Priestly, Gay-Lussac, Lavoisier, Charles, Avogadro, Scheele, van Helmont, et. al) describing experimental work and important theoretical contributions. Use at least one primary source, and include a list of references. Due Friday September 4.
• Molar Gas Constant lab report: Include an image (or drawing) of each piece of equipment with a label and clear description of its function in the experiment. Write a step-by-step procedure for the experiment, then in the next section, write a brief justification for each step in the procedure. Insert a table, and record all of your data for each of your three trials. Insert a second table, and enter all of the calculated values for each of your trials. Due Friday September 4.

Assignment Three:

• Read Chapter 12
• For extra credit, write an essay on the contribution of Johannes van der Waals, Fritz London, Peter Debye or John Lennard-Jones to the modern understanding of intermolecular forces. Try to use a primary source if possible.

Assignment Four:

• Read Chapter 13
• For extra credit, write an essay that relates Bragg diffraction, Miller indices and Bravais lattices.

Assignment Five:

• Read Chapter 14
• Do chapter 14 problems 73, 75, 78, 81, 86, 87, 94, 99, 101, 102 to be turned in on Tuesday October 6.
• For extra credit, write an essay summarizing the Nobel lecture by Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff.

Assignment Six:

• Read Chapter 20
• For extra credit, write an essay summarizing the work of Volta, Coulomb, Faraday, Galvani or Davy.

Assignment Seven:

• Read Chapter 15
• For extra credit, write an essay that clearly illustrates the chemical significance of each of the factors in the Arrhenius equation.

Assignment Eight:

• Read Chapter 16
• For extra credit, write an essay that shows how Henri Le Chatalier relied on the work of others in order to formulate his "principle.".

Assignment Nine:

• Read Chapter 18
• For extra credit, write an essay on the development of the pH scale by Soren Soensen and the invention of the pH meter by Arnold Beckman.

Assignment Ten:

• Read Chapter 19
• For extra credit, write an essay on the American physical chemist, Josiah Willard Gibbs. Briefly sketch his education; describe a major contribution; and highlight something enigmatical about him.

Assignment Eleven:

• Read Chapter 6
• Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Quantum Mechanics for Chemists.
• Work out all of the end-of-chapter problems by Tuesday December 15.
• For extra credit, write an essay on the work of Werner Heisenberg and his two major contributions to quantum theory--the uncertainty principle and matrix mechanics. Use the AIP history of physics exhibit on Heisenberg.