Advanced Placement Chemistry

Course Description:

Advanced Placement Chemistry expands on the topics covered in Chemistry I with emphasis placed on bonding, equilibrium, and energy changes in chemical reactions.  Students completing this course may choose to take the advanced placement exam to possible earn college credit.  It is intended for those who expect to major in a science related field in college.

Textbook Used:   

Masterton and Hurley (2001).  Chemistry Principles and Reactions; 4th ed..  Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers

Units

• Matter and Measurement
• Atoms, Molecules and Ions
• Nuclear Reactions
• Mass Relations in Chemistry
• Reactions In Aqueous Solutions
• Electronic Structure and the Periodic Table
• Covalent  Bonding
• Thermochemistry
• Spontaneity of Reactions
• Organic Chemistry
• Rate of Reaction
• Gaseous Chemical Equilibrium
• Acids and Bases
• Equilibria in Acid-Base Solutions
• Precipitation Equilibria
• Spontaneity of Reactions
• Electrochemistry
• Liquids and Solids
• Solutions