Arkansas State University Department of Chemistry and Physics

Students should know the following:

a) Types of reactions

b) Net ionic equations, Solubility rules

c) Oxidation states

d) properties of acids and bases

e) Acid - Base definitions: Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis

f) pH, pH scale

g)  acid - base strength; % ionization and concentration, strong acids

h) naming of acids

j) Titration Calculations

k) Enthalpy; exothermic, endothermic; calorimetry

l) First Law of Thermodynamics; Thermochemical equations

m) State functions; standard states

n) heats of formation

o) Calculation of enthalpy change from:
        i) heats of formation
        ii) Hess' Law
 
 
 
 

Revised 11/7/06