Textbook: Brown & LeMay, Chemisty the Central Science 9th Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002

This course is comparable to the 8 credit freshman 100 and 101 (first and second semester) course at most colleges.
The only course requirement is completion of Algebra I and first year chemistry (either honors or regular). A more important requirement is the willingness work hard and fork regularly. Keeping up with the work is essential to success.

Unit A - Intro and Stoichiometry
Chapters 1, 2, and 3
  • empirical and molecular formulas
  • nomenclature
  • stoichiometry - limiting reactants, percent yield
  • gravimetric analysis
  • ideal gas law
  • molarity
  • complex ions
Unit B - Reactions and Introduction to Electrochemistry
Chapters 4 and 20 (sections 1-3)

Unit C - Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics
Chapter

Unit D - Gas Laws
Chapter

Unit E - Kinetics
Chapter 14

Unit F - General Equilibrium (Keq, Kc, and Kp) and Solubility Equilibrium (Ksp)
Chapters 15 and 17 (sections 4-7)

Unit G - Acid Base Equilibrium, Buffers, and Titration Curves
Chapters 16 and 17 (sections 1-3)

Unit H - Electronic Structure, Quantum Numbers, Periodicity, and Nuclear Chemistry
Chapters 6, 7, and 21

Unit I - Chemical Bonding, Polarity, Geometry
Chapter 8 and 9
  • resonance
Unit J - Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, and Solids
Chapter 11

Unit K - Solutions
Chapter 13

Unit L - Organic (This material is interspersed throughout the entire year.)
Chapter 25

Unit R - Environmental (This material is interspersed throughout the entire year as well as during the two weeks after the AP chemistry exam.)
Chapter 12 and outside readings