CHAPTERS and LINKS
- RELEVANT BOOK SECTIONS
- FLASH MEDIA
- CC JAVA-BASED ACTIVITIES
Chemical Kinetics (or Reaction Rates)
- Handout: Chemical
Kinetics Note Packet
- Collision Theory of Reactions
- Lab: Iodine
Clock Reaction
- Computer Lab: Sections 1,2, and 3 of the Chemical Reactions Activity
- Handout: Questions
for above computer labs on reaction rate
- Reaction Rates
- Demo: Lycopodium power and Iron filings
- Homework: Using descriptions of what must
be happening on a molecular level, explain why concentrated acids are
much more dangerous than ones that have been diluted by water.
- Chemical Potential Energy
- Strong and Weak Bond Overview
- Types of Potential Energy
- Demo: Chemical potential energy in chemical reactions models
- Computer Lab: Section 4 of the Chemical Reactions Activity
- Computer Lab: Forming a Single Bond
- Computer Lab: Breaking a Single Bond
- Chemical Reactions and Potential
Energy
- Homework: Chemical
Potential Energy in Chemical Reactions
- Activation Energy
- Demo: Making HCl, H2O, and
NI3
- Film: Activation
Energy and Bonding
- Computer Lab: Section 5 of the Chemical Reactions Activity
- Computer Lab: Activation energy and Chemical Energy
- Homework: Draw potential energy curves
for the following situations:
- an exothermic reaction that is likely to be completely spontaneous
- a reaction which would require a constant input of energy to
complete
- an exothermic reaction with a high activation energy
- an endothermic reaction with a low activation energy
- a reaction in which the reactants and products contain approximately
but not exactly the same chemical potential energy.
- Catalysts
- Computer Lab: Section 6 of the Chemical Reactions Activity
- Homework: Activation
Energy
- Equilibrium
- Lab: Penny Lab
- Computer Lab: Section 7 of the Chemical Reactions Activity
- Chemical Equilibrium
- Homework: Chemical Equilibrium
- Le Chetalier's Principle
- Demo: NO2 <--> N2O4
tubes
- Lab:
Le Chetalier part 1 and 2
- Film: The
Harber Process
- Homework: LeChetalier's Principle
- Handout: Chemical
Kinetic Review with Answers