Final Exam Chapters
•  The final exam will cover chapters:
–  6
–  9
–  18
–  19
–  20
–  21
–  22
–  23
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Final Exam Review
•  Chapter 6
–  Equilibrium constant
–  Acid rain
–  Thermodynamics/Gibbs Free Energy
–  Solubility product
–  Bronsted-Lowry acids & bases
–  pH calculation
–  Strong & weak acids & bases
•  Chapter 9
–  Strong & acids & bases – pH calculation
–  Weak acids & bases – pH calculations
–  Buffers
•  Henderson-Hasselbach equation
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Final Exam Review con’t
•  Chapter 18
–  Nature of light
–  Energy, frequency, wavelength equations
–  Beer’s law equations
–  Absorbance
–  Emission vs. Excitation
–  Fluorescence
–  Phosphorescence
•  Chapter 19
–  Scatchard plots
–  Raman spectroscopy
–  LSPR & SERS
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Final Exam Review con’t
•  Chapter 20
–  Lamps, lasers (how they work)
–  How a grating works
–  Detectors: PMT, CCD
–  Optical fibers
•  Snell’s law equation
–  Dealing with noise
•  Chapter 21
–  Atomic spectroscopy
•  Types
•  Flames, furnaces, plasma
–  Boltzmann distribution equation
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Final Exam Review con’t
•  Chapter 22
–  What is mass spectrometry and what can we
learn from it?
–  Electron & chemical ionization
–  Resolution & resolving power
–  Types of mass spectrometers
•  Chapter 23
–  Extractions à Effect of pH
–  Types of chromatography
–  Retention
–  Resolution
–  Plate height and number
–  Van Deemter equation
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