This experiments-oriented course is for learners that have, or are about to, complete Immersive Chemistry First Semester. Please contact Dr Scott at info@learnwithdrscott.com if you are not sure if you are ready for this course, so that we can make sure everybody is in the right class;)
Dates and Times for Live Classes:
June 23 – Oct 1 Section:
Tuesday-Thursday 8AM PST schedule
(one lesson per week)
with Optional Review June 2-18
Summer session Second Semester Immersive Chemistry will meet every Tuesday and Thursday from June 23 to Oct 1, 2020 from 8-8:55 AM PST (Pacific time). There is a break for Labor Day (USA holiday) on Sept 8. Schedule is below image.
These chemistry classes will cover one lesson per week, and meet twice per week. Tuesdays will be the “main lecture” and Thursdays will be “worksheet review and questions.” Learners may attend both, one, or choose the pre-recorded video option for any lesson.
| week | Tuesday 8-8:55 AM PST Main Lecture | Thursday 8-8:55 AM PST Worksheet Review and Questions |
| 1 | June 23 Lesson 1: pH and 1-into-10 Dilutions | June 25 Lesson 1: pH and 1-into-10 Dilutions |
| 2 | June 30 Lesson 2: Dilution Factors, ICE Tables and % Acid Dissociation | July 2 Lesson 2: Dilution Factors, ICE Tables and % Acid Dissociation |
| 3 | July 7 Lesson 3: Strong acids, weak acids and pKa | July 9 Lesson 3: Strong acids, weak acids and pKa |
| 4 | July 14 Lesson 4: Strong bases, proton acceptors, neutral salts | July 16 Lesson 4: Strong bases, proton acceptors, neutral salts |
| 5 | July 21 Lesson 5: Conjugate acid-base pairs, pKb and pOH | July 23 Lesson 5: Conjugate acid-base pairs, pKb and pOH |
| 6 | July 28* Lesson 6: Neutralization Reactions & Titration Curves | July 30 Lesson 6: Neutralization Reactions & Titration Curves |
| 7 | Aug 4 Lesson 7: Buffers and Shifting Equilibria | Aug 6 Lesson 7: Buffers and Shifting Equilibria |
| 8 | Aug 11 Lesson 8: Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium | Aug 13 Lesson 8: Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium |
| 9 | Aug 18 Lesson 9: Measuring Pressure | Aug 20 Lesson 9: Measuring Pressure |
| 10 | Aug 25 Lesson 10: Experiment to Measure the Gas Constant R | Aug 27 Lesson 10: Experiment to Measure the Gas Constant R |
| 11 | Sept 1 Lesson 11: Analyzing Gasses | Sept 3 Lesson 11: Analyzing Gasses |
| 12 | Sept 8 LABOR DAY (USA) BREAK NO CLASS | Sept 10 Lesson 12: Filtration and Thermal Degredation (Main Lecture) |
| 13 | Sept 15 Lesson 13: Kinetics & The Iodine Clock Reaction | Sept 17 Lesson 13: Kinetics & The Iodine Clock Reaction |
| 14 | Sept 22 Lesson 14: Kinetics and Equilibrium | Sept 24 Lesson 14: Kinetics and Equilibrium |
| 15 | Sept 29 Lesson 15: Electrochemistry | Oct 1 Lesson 15: Electrochemistry |
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Prerequisite: You are ready for this course if you have completed Immersive Chemistry – First Semester or a similar course covering polyatomic ions, IMFs, balancing reactions, limiting reactants, titration, and designing experiments.
Description: You’ll continue to learn more about science by using analogies that relate to concepts you already know well. Plus, you’ll see and perform a variety of laboratory activities to reinforce the concepts hands-on. Most of the advanced math, technical jargon, complicated chemicals and fancy lab equipment have been removed from the topics so you can truly master the chemistry concepts. In additional to covering all those important, traditional, second semester chemistry topics that would be found in a textbook, you’ll learn practical stuff and deeper insights into real world chemical systems. We’ll spend about half the course understanding acid-base-water chemistry conceptually, in addition to making pH predictions. You’ll learn how the whole world is in equilibrium, why matter flows, the conditions under which chemical reactions occur (or not), how to generate electricity, and the relation of all these concepts to this invisible stuff called energy.
There’s a written assignment, with solutions, for each lesson so that the ideas sink in. You’ll get up to speed with chemistry fast and develop the skills needed to have fun applying what you know about chemistry and science to understand how the world works.
The big ideas you{ll be learning:
- Understanding what happens in and over water, the world’s most common perhaps most complex substance
- Explaining the world using equilibrium
- Understanding the difference between equilibrium vs a changing system
- Analyzing and (optionally) building heterogeneous, flowing experimental rigs
- Using logarithms, equations, and tables of scientific data to make predictions
- Generating electricity