Pooyan Haghighat
Chemistry – Place Cartier
Summer 2015 (July 2nd to August 14th)
Time: Mondays through Fridays 8:30am-12:00pm
Classroom: 3, except for labs
Teacher: Pooyan Haghighat
Email: phaghighat@lbpearson.qc.ca
Website: pooyanchemistry2015.weebly.com
Contact: please contact through website
Please come to me ASAP if you have any questions or concerns, if you need special accommodations, or if you
haven’t finished math 416 or physical science.
Please remember that respect and responsibility are the two main criteria for continued participation in this class.
Also, absence without excuse and late arrivals will not be accepted.
I look forward to working with you!
Course Outline
CHEMISTRY BOOK 1: CHEM5041
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Properties of the gases
Definitions of different
gases in terms of its
temperature, pressure,
number of moles and mass
Factors affecting the
volume of a gas
Kinetic theory of gases
Real gas versus ideal gas
Definition of pressure
Avogadro’s hypothesis
Charles’s law
Gay Lussac’s law
Boyle’s law
General gas law
Ideal gas law
Dalton’s law (partial
pressure law)
Molar volume of a gas
Volumetric mass of a gas
CHEMISTRY BOOK 2: CHEM5042
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Review of physical science
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Endothermic and
exothermic dissolutions
(chemical reactions and
distinctions)
Molar heat and enthalpy
change (ΔH)
Enthalpy diagrams
The factors that can
influence the rate of
reaction
Maxwell-Boltzmann
Distribution
The three states of matter
at two levels (macroscopic
and microscopic)
Phase changes graphs
Heat capacity and molar
heat (calculations)
Quantity of heat
Qsurroundings and Qsystem
The calorimeter
Hess’s law
CHEMISTRY BOOK 3: CHEM5043
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Le Châtelier’s principle:
pressure, temperature and
concentration
Titration between an acid
and a base
Equilibrium constant value
and its expression
The ICE system
Factors affecting a system
in equilibrium
Concentrations at
equilibrium
Systems in equilibrium and
not in equilibrium
Oxidation reactions
Reduction reactions
Redox reaction and its
difference in potential
Spontaneous and not
spontaneous reactions
Oxidation-Reducction
couples
Cathode and anode
Electrochemical cell/Voltaic
cell
Pooyan Haghighat
Course schedule
Chem. 5041 – Gases
Start date:
Thursday, July 2nd
Lab exam: Boyle’s law (20%)
Monday, July 13th
Theory exam (80%)
Tuesday, July 14th
Chem. 5042 – Chemical reactions 1
Start date:
Wednesday, July 15th
Lab exam: Heat of reaction (25%)
Monday, July 27th
Theory exam (80%)
Tuesday, July 28th
Chem. 5043 – Chemical reactions 2
Start date:
Lab exam: Titration (30%)
Theory exam (70%)
Wednesday, July 29th
Wednesday, August 12th
Thursday, August 13th
There are no retakes for the labs. If you fail a lab, you fail the book it is
associated with.