General Chemistry I

Description

This workbook provides structure to PLTL Workshop as well as the entire course in first semester general chemistry.  Peer-Led Team Learning, a proven method for improving learning at the college level, consists of many qualified and trained students, Peer Leaders, who facilitate learning for small groups of students enrolled in the course.  Peer Leaders at the University of Texas at El Paso and at other universities, working on their own time and using their own resources, created and contributed the majority of this book. This book is not intended to substitute for a text, it is intended to complement lecture, the workshop, and the textbook.

The workbook serves as a study guide.  The content is arranged to assist understanding of first semester topics through practice exercises.  Unit reviews mimic exams and should be approached by the user as an exam.  Problems should be answered with only a periodic table, calculator, and pencil.  If the user finds that problems cannot be answered without reference to additional help, then the end of unit examinations serve as self-assessments that the material is – or is not – sufficiently well mastered to pass the appropriate exam.  In the latter case, further study is warranted.

The four units of this book are aligned with the progression of the content of many first semester general chemistry texts; coverage is based largely on the topics found on the American Chemical Society end of semester examination for CHEM I.  The unit separations generally correspond to material logically examined on four one-hour examinations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Unit I

• Module 0 – Preliminaries for Chemistry
• Module 1 – Introduction to Chemistry
• Module 2 – Atomic Structure and Nomenclature
• Module 3 –  The Mole, Mass Composition, and Stoichiometry
• Unit I – Review

Unit II

• Module 4 – Part I: Introduction to Aqueous Chemistry
• Module 4 – Part II: Acid/Base and Redox Chemistry
• Module 5 – Gas Laws
• Unit II – Review

Unit III

• Module 6 – Part I: Work & Calorimetry
• Module 6 – Part II: Enthalpy and Enthalpy Changes
• Module 7 – Part I: Waves
• Module 7 – Part II: Quantum Numbers and Electron Configuration
• Unit III – Review

Unit IV

• Module 8: The Periodic Properties of Elements
• Module 9: First Principles in Chemical Bonding
• Module 10: Molecular Geometry
• Unit IV – Review
• First Semester Review