Welcome to Prof. Roussel's Chemistry 2000

General Chemistry II

Important

From now until the end of term, the course is being virtualized. Video lecture presentations will be posted, with links in the syllabus below. The MWF classes will become drop-in tutorials hosted on Zoom where you can ask any questions you like. You can join the Zoom meeting at 11:00 a.m. MWF starting Wednesday, March 18, here: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/699265416

Key course resources

Course outline, problem sets, extra notes, and other shared course resources.
Tests and solutions. This includes past tests (different from those on Susan's site) suitable for pre-test practice.
Additional practice problems. Again, these are extra problems different from those on Susan's site.

Lectures

Lecture slides	Textbook readings	Video lecture
Introduction to the molecular orbital theory	Review: sections 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.6 and 9.1. New: pages 386–389
LCAO-MO theory for homonuclear diatomic molecules	Pages 390–393
LCAO-MO theory for heteronuclear diatomic molecules	Pages 394–395
Molecular spectroscopy of diatomic molecules
Molecular orbitals for polyatomic molecules		Page 395
Vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules	Review: section 9.2. New: pages 1012–1014 and 222–223
Band theory of bonding in crystalline solids	Section 8.7, and pages 438–440
Valence bond theory	Sections 10.1 and 10.2
Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics	Review: section 5.6. New: Pages 766–780
Free energy	Pages 780–783 and 791–796
Chemical equilibrium	Pages 470–471, 477–479, 484–485, 665–667 and 791; and sections 15.5, 16.4
Temperature dependence of the equilibrium constant	Page 642
Phase diagrams	Pages 413–415
Redox reactions	Section 19.1
Electrochemistry	Sections 19.2, 19.3 [only pages 826–829] and 19.4
Batteries and fuel cells	Section 19.5
Introduction to organic chemistry	Sections 20.1, 20.2, 20.4–20.6 but skip any material about nomenclature	Video lecture
Reactions of organic compounds	Sections 21.1, 21.2, 21.5	Video 1: introduction, Video 2: electrophilic addition
Organic acids: Structural determinants of acidity	Review: sections 16.1, 16.2. New: pages 940–943	Video
Acid dissociation equilibria	Section 16.4	Video
Organic bases	Sections 16.3, 16.4, 16.7	Video

Other useful resources

Test-taking strategies: This is a short document that gives you some hints for succeeding in university-level tests.
Properties of exponential and logarithmic functions
Summaries of MO and VB procedures
Blog post about the meanings of the word "stable"
Pre-2008 course materials
There was a major revision of the Chem 1000/2000 curriculum in 2007–08. Nevertheless, some of the pre-2008 course materials may be useful and are accessible through the following links:
- Problem sets
- Tests and solutions

Cool stuff

American Chemical Society Climate Science Toolkit
Alberta Climate Records
A simple introduction to ab initio calculations in HyperChem
WebElements, an excellent online periodic table
Dynamic Periodic Table, another very nice periodic table
Orbitron, a web site that shows various representations of the atomic orbitals
Phase diagram of water
Article on the use of supercritical CO₂ to power turbines
TED talk about the Ambri cell and its development

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