GENERAL CHEMISTRY

Chapter 12 -- Key Concepts

Understand and describe the types of van der Waals forces.
Understand the factors influencing the strength of intermolecular interactions in a variety of atoms and molecules.
Understand how viscosity, surface tension and vapor pressure are affected by the strength of intermolecular interactions.
Understand and describe the unique properties of water's structure in the liquid and solid phases.
Understand the concept of the critical point.
Use the Clausius-Clapyron equation.
Use a phase diagram to identify the phase of a substance at various temperature/pressure points.
Label various regions of a phase diagram with respect to phase or parameter (i.e. boiling point).
Describe (generally) the types of bonding in solids.
Determine the number of atoms contained in a unit cell.