General Chemistry 1 Lecture Series

Hello internet, and welcome to the General Chemistry 1 Lecture Series by the Science of Life.  This is the cover sheet and chapter reference for the first semester of the first year of chemistry for Chem Majors.

This course – with the second semester – is the bare-bones basics of a wide variety of chemistry fields, including (but not limited to) physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and quantum chemistry.  Because of this, General Chemistry is a survey course, a course which is a shallow look at a wide berth of sub-disciplines in the subject.

For most universities, the mathematical prerequisite for Chemistry is Pre-calculus 1.  It won't come into play for most of the material course, but there is one vital calculation which is central to most of the course and all chemistry courses which requires knowledge of which comes from the Pre-calculus course.  Once I start that lecture series, I will put it up here.  Also, fair warning, for General Chemistry 2, while calculus is not required for the second semester, the concepts in calculus may be useful to help understand some of the concepts in second semester general chemistry.  If you haven't taken calculus, though, don't worry too much about it.

For both semesters worth of General Chemistry, I will be deriving predominantly from the text book "Chemistry: The Central Science" 12th edition by Brown et. al for those of you who want to read along.  The first semester covers the first 13 chapters of this text, which covers some basic concepts of chemistry including atoms, ions, stoichiometry, solutions, and structures.  The second semester covers the rest of the test, including kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, thermodynamics, electro-chemistry, nuclear chemistry, and organic chemistry.

Gen Chem 1 Chapters
2. Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
3. Stoichiometry: Calculations with Chemical Formulas and Equations
4. Reactions in Aqueous Solutions
5. Thermochemistry
6. Electronic Structure of Atoms
7. Periodic Properties of the Elements
8. Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding
9. Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories
10. Gases
11. Liquids and Inter-molecular Forces
12. Solids and Modern Materials
12. Properties of Solutions

For a full list of subjects, go here.  For a list of all chemistry courses, go here.

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