AP Chemistry

*Materials Required* In particular, students will explore the six content areas that have been identified as the focus of the AP Chemistry course:

• Atoms and Elements—composition of matter, conservation of matter, atomic structure, spectroscopy, periodicity, and Coulomb’s Law
• Properties of Matter—states of matter, physical properties, gas behavior, kinetic molecular theory, solutions, intermolecular and intramolecular interactions, the Lewis structure model, and the VSEPR model
• Chemical Reactions—chemical equations, types of chemical reactions, endo and exothermicity, and electrochemistry
• Kinetics—rate laws, reaction mechanisms, activation energy, and factors affecting reaction rates
• Thermodynamics—energy transfer, conservation of energy, enthalpy, calorimetry, potential energy and geometric arrangement of atoms, and entropy
• Equilibrium—reversible reactions, reaction quotients, Le Chatelier’s principle, acid-base chemistry, solubility, and Gibbs free energy