General Chemistry II

Description

This workbook provides structure to PLTL Workshop as well as the entire course in second 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 second 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 second semester general chemistry texts; coverage is based largely on the topics found on the American Chemical Society end of semester examination for CHEM II.  The unit separations generally correspond to material logically examined on four one-hour examinations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Unit 1

• Module 1 – General Chemistry I Review
• Module 2 – Introduction to Organic Chemistry
• Module 3 – Organic Functional Groups and Simple Reactions
• Exam I – Review

Unit II

• Module 4 – Intermolecular Interactions
• Module 5 – Properties of Solutions
• Module 6 – Chemical Kinetics
• Module 7 – Integrated Rate Laws and Temperature Dependence of Reaction Rates
• Exam II – Review

Unit III

• Module 8 –  Introduction to Equilibrium
• Module 9 – Reaction Quotient, Le Chatelier’s Principle, and Acids and Bases
• Module 10 – Acid and Base Equilibria
• Module 11– Buffers, Titrations and Polyprotic Acids
• Exam III – Review

Unit IV

• Module 12 – Acidic and Basic Salts, Lewis Acids and Bases
• Module 13 – Chemical Thermodynamics
• Module 14 – Electrochemistry
• Module 15 – Electroplating and Electrolysis
• Exam IV – Review