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Introduction 

• Including common elements, nomenclature of ions and compounds, reactivity of elements 

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Periodic Table

•  periodic trends in chemical and physical properties of the elements

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Stoichiometry

• Mole Concept, including molar mass, Avogadro’s number, empirical and molecular formulas

• Chemical Equations, including the balancing of equations, stoichiometric calculations, percent yield, and limiting reactants

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Bonding

•  lewis structures, shapes, and polarity.

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Intermolecular Forces

• identifying different intermolecular forces and their affect on properties of substances. 

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Thermochemistry

• Including conservation of energy, calorimetry and specific heats, enthalpy (heat) changes associated with phase changes and chemical reactions, heating and cooling curves, entropy

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Acids and Bases

•  including Brønsted-Lowry theory, strong and weak acids and bases, pH, titrations, indicators

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Equilibrium

•  including factors affecting position of equilibrium (LeChâtelier's principle) in gaseous and aqueous systems, equilibrium constants, and equilibrium expressions

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Solutions

• Including conservation of energy, calorimetry and specific heats, enthalpy (heat) changes associated with phase changes and chemical reactions, heating and cooling curves, entropy

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Reactions

• predicting oxidation-reduction, neutralization, combustion, and precipitation reactions

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Gases

• including the kinetic molecular theory, gas law relationships, molar volumes, density, and stoichiometry

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Oxidation-Reduction

• including recognition of oxidation-reduction reactions, combustion, oxidation numbers, use of activity series

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Nuclear Chemistry

• balancing nuclear reactions, half live questions, nuclear particles

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Quantum Chemistry

• quantum numbers and energy levels (orbitals), electron configurations, periodic trends

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Organic Chemistry

• functional groups, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, naming and properties

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Laboratory

• Including knowledge of laboratory equipment, measurements, procedures, observations, safety, calculations, data analysis, interpretation of graphical data, drawing conclusions from observations and data

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Environment

•  compounds of environmental concern