Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lecture #12, Wednesday, October 21st

Today I finished chapter 4 by wrapping up the redox unit with reactions involving metals. Be sure to know how to interpret the activity series in solving these problems. The activity series will be given to you on the exam.

We are now covering chapter 6 (we will cover Chapter 5 the last week of the quarter) and I started this unit by drawing the various s, p, and d orbitals. You will see these orbitals on the first question of each quiz from now till the end of the quarter. I refer to the first question as "fundamentals," which is material that I want you to know when you leave this course, such as nomenclature.

We already know that protons and neutrons reside in the nucleus with electrons orbiting them. Now we will talk about the behavior of these electrons and just how they orbit the nucleus.

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