| date | format | topic | Chapter |
| Week 1 - Jan. 20 | lecture | Introduction to Chemistry 104 | |
| - Jan. 22 | lecture | The Equilibrium Constant | 15 |
| - Jan. 24 first hour (a) | group work | GW1: writing expressions, Kc and calculations | |
| - Jan. 24 second hour (b) | lecture | Predicting reaction changes | |
| Week 2 - Jan. 27 | lecture | Factors affecting Equilibrium | |
| - Jan. 29 | group work | GW2:practicing prediction; develop intuition | |
| Jan. 31 (a) | lecture | Example Applications to Reactions: Decomposition, Solubility, Acid/Base, Complexation | |
| Jan. 31 (b) | group work | GW3:Application to Geochemistry: Rock Weathering | |
| - February Week 3 - Feb.3 | lecture | Spontaneity and Entropy | 18 |
| - Feb. 5 | group work | GW4:Discover how Spontaneity relates to S | |
| - Feb. 7 (a) | lecture | SNOW!! | |
| (b) | group work | SNOW!! | |
| Week 4 - Feb. 10 | lecture | Introduction to "the Force": Free energy and "the system". | |
| - Feb. 12 | group work | GW5:free energy calcs for intuition building | |
| - Feb. 14 (a) | lecture | Kc and delta G | |
| (b) | lecture | Acid/Base definitions | 16 |
| Week 5 - Feb. 17 | group work | GW6:more carbonate chemistry | |
| - Feb. 19 | lecture | Weak Acid/Base Equilibria | |
| Feb. 20, evening | EXAM 1 | ( on material from weeks 1-4) | |
| - Feb. 21 (a) | Weak Acid/Bases and their Salts; Titrations | ||
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| Week 6 - Feb. 24 | group work | GW7:Calculating a titration curve | 17 |
| - Feb. 26 | lecture | weak acids and bases | |
| Feb. 28 (a) | lecture | Acid/base strengths based on structure | |
| (b) | group work | GW8:Acid/Base chemistry of blood | |
| -MarchWeek 7 - Mar.3 | lecture | Interpreting different titration curves | |
| - Mar. 5 | lecture | buffers, polyprotic acids | |
| - Mar. 7 (a) | --------------------- | no class | |
| Week 8 - Mar. 10 | Spring Break | ||
| Week 9 - Mar. 17 | lecture | Solubility Applications | 17 |
| - Mar.19 | group work | GW9:Real World Solubility Problems | |
| - Mar. 21 (a) | lecture | Transition Metals | 20 |
| (b) | group work | GW10:metal relatives | |
| Week 10 - Mar. 24 | lecture | Magnetism and color | |
| - Mar. 26 | group work | GW11:geometry and electronic structure | |
| - Mar. 28 (a & b) |
Exam 2 |
(material from weeks 5-9; Chapters 16, 17) |
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| Week 11 Mar. 31 | lecture | Redox Reactions , Electrochemical Cells | 19 |
| -April - Apr.2 | group work | GW12:What's happening in Dr. B.'s fountain? | |
| - Apr. 4 (a) | lecture | Nernst equation; | |
| (b) | group work | GW13:Gold Extraction | |
| Week 12 - Apr. 7 |
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| - Apr. 9 | group work | GW14:ion selective elctrodes | |
| - Apr. 11 (a) | lecture | ||
| (b) | group work | GW15:Real World Example- Biochemical Pump | |
| Week 13 - Apr. 14 | lecture | Kinetics: reaction rates | 14 |
| - Apr. 16 | and more kinetics: concentration and time | ||
| - Apr. 18 (a) | group work | GW16: no candy for breakfast? | |
| (b) | lecture | kinetics: rate laws | |
| Week 14 - Apr. 21 | lecture | kinetics: activation energy | |
| - Apr. 23 | group work | GW17:TBA | |
| - Apr. 25 (a) | lecture | reaction mechanisms | |
| (b) | group work | GW18:practice determining mechanisms | |
| Week 15 - Apr. 28 | Exam 3 | (material from weeks 10-14, Chapters 19, 20) ) | |
| - Apr. 30 | Nuclear chemistry | 21 | |
| - May 2 | LAST DAY OF CLASSES |