Name:________________________________________________ Date:__________________________
AP Chemistry Summer Assignment
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper please answer the following questions. If you need help
answering these questions you are encouraged to use all of the resources you have available with the
exception of other students. Good resources include bozemanscience.com, the UC Davis Chemistry Wiki
and kentchemistry.com
Question 1:
Name the following Chemical Compounds:
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Write the formula for the following compounds:
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Ba3P2
As5I7
TiBr3
H3PO4
MgCrO4•5H2O
Chromic Acid
Lead (IV) Carbonate
barium hydroxide octahydrate
Dicarbon hexabromide
Question 2:
Refer to the following equation
2Al(OH)3 + 3H2SO4  Al2(SO4)3 + 6H2O
H= -384 KJ/mol Al2(SO4)3
How many grams of Sulfuric Acid are needed to produce 76.8 kJ of heat?
Question 3:
(A)F
(B) S
(C) Mg
(D) Ar
(E) Mn
1. Forms monatomic ions with 2– charge in solutions
2. Forms a compound having the formula KXO4
3. Forms oxides that are common air pollutants and that yield acidic solution in water
(A) O
(B) La
(C) Rb
(D) Mg
(E) N
1. What is the most electronegative element?
2. Which element exhibits the greatest number of different oxidation states?
3. Which of the elements above has the smallest ionic radius for its most commonly found ion?
Name:________________________________________________ Date:__________________________
Read the four quotes below: See directions at end of section.
Science Quotes by Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen
[Responding to a student whose friend asked about studying Agricultural Chemistry at Johns
Hopkins:]
We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry
here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach
Chemistry.
Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a
Chemist.
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was
necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is
to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge
of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question,
science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end
leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings
would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of
religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be
practically identical.
Name:________________________________________________ Date:__________________________
While reading in a textbook of chemistry, ... I came across the statement, 'nitric acid acts upon copper.' I
was getting tired of reading such absurd stuff and I determined to see what this meant. Copper was
more or less familiar to me, for copper cents were then in use. I had seen a bottle marked 'nitric acid' on
a table in the doctor's office where I was then 'doing time.' I did not know its peculiarities, but I was
getting on and likely to learn. The spirit of adventure was upon me. Having nitric acid and copper, I had
only to learn what the words 'act upon' meant... I put one of them [cent] on the table, opened the bottle
marked 'nitric acid'; poured some of the liquid on the copper; and prepared to make an observation. But
what was this wonderful thing which I beheld? The cent was already changed, and it was no small
change either. A greenish blue liquid foamed and fumed over the cent and over the table. The air in the
neighborhood of the performance became colored dark red. A great colored cloud arose. This was
disagreeable and suffocating—how should I stop this? I tried to get rid of the objectionable mess by
picking it up and throwing it out of the window, which I had meanwhile opened. I learned another fact—
nitric acid not only acts upon copper but it acts upon fingers. The pain led to another unpremeditated
experiment. I drew my fingers across my trousers and another fact was discovered. Nitric acid acts upon
trousers. Taking everything into consideration, that was the most impressive experiment, and, relatively,
probably the most costly experiment I have ever performed.
Visit the site below and observe the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14RzBOmLnek
In one of the first classes we will hold a Socratic Seminar titled
“Are the benefits of preforming Laboratory Experiments worth the time, expense and danger?”
Please come to first class with these questions on a separate sheet of paper, and prepared to take one
side or the other of the question above.