IB+Chemistry+12+2015+-+2016

=WELCOME TO IB CHEMISTRY 12 =

First a couple of quotes:

'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.' - Winston Churchill

'Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.' - William Shakespeare

'We're not asking you to be perfect on every play. What we're asking of you and what you should be asking of each other is to give a perfect effort.' - Coach Ladouceur

Essential Information:
The Guide -

The Data Booklet - You will need to bring your OWN unmarked copy with you for test/quizzes etc. -

The OSSD Syllabus -

A pretty awesome YouTube Channel dealing with all the topics from IB Chemistry given by[| Richard Thornley.]

A pretty awesome Simulator we will be using from [|Iowa State University]

Some Laboratory Stuff -

**Welcome BACK!!!!** Review of Topic 1 - Quantitative Chemistry:
 * Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2014**
 * Introduction to the course including the Guide, Data Booklet, OSSD Syllabus and the use of the whiteboards and groups.
 * Topics to be covered under the new HL/SL structure and how the IA will work.

Finished Review and Grade Level Assemblies
 * Wednesday, Sept 9, 2015**

Group Practice of Topic 1 Problems -
 * Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015**

Solutions to assigned problems: Section 1.4 #1, 4, 7, 9 + LR #1, 3, 6 + 1.5 #3, 4

Read this [|Site] dealing with solubility curves for the review laboratory tomorrow.

Homework: 1.2 of Handout from Class #13,14,16,17,18


 * Review Quiz - Topic 1 of the Syllabus on Tuesday, Sept. 15 **

Review Laboratory
 * Friday, Sept. 11, 2015**
 * The purpose of this laboratory is to help you review the key ideas involved with data and error analysis as well as drawing appropriate conclusions and evaluating your results.
 * ** DUE - Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 **
 * [[file:Lab - Developing a solubility curve.pdf]]
 * HERE IS THE DATA TO Analyze - [[file:Solubility Data.pdf]]

Topic 5 - Energetics
 * Monday, Sept. 14, 2015**
 * Introduced the concept of exothermic and endothermic reactions, as well as, enthalpy and energy diagrams.
 * The difference between heat and temperature
 * Conservation of energy
 * Demos of each - Exothermic (Dehydration of sugar, Elephant toothpaste) + Endothermic (32g Ba(OH)2 + 17 g NH4SCN)

Here are some notes on the entire topics of Energetics if you are interested in reading my rambles -


 * Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015**

Quiz - Topic 1 + Grade 12 Assembly

Completed exothermic and endothermic reactions and began discussing calorimetery.
 * Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015**
 * Looked at specific heat capacities as measures of how the substance gains heat.
 * The limitations with using calorimetery techniques.
 * Determining the maximum temperature change using the data loggers.

Homework: Looks like you do not have any....cheers

Representing enthalpy changes and an introduction to enthalpy calculations.
 * Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015**

Example Problems from class:

Homework: Try some problems from this worksheet - Partner Practice with Enthalpy Change + Looked at how to determine the maximum temperature when a calorimeter is used.
 * Friday, Sept. 18, 2015**

Laboratory that we will complete Monday -

[|EXTRA RESOURCES]

Homework: p. 232 #4, 5 + p. 239 #10 - 12 - Answers are located at the end of the document.

Molar Enthalpy Laboatory.
 * Monday, Sept. 21, 2015:**

Hess' Law a way for determining the change in enthalpy for reaction that are difficult to complete experimentally.
 * Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015**

TEST - Energetics - Topic 5 - Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015

Looked at Standard Enthalpies of Formation and how they are related to Hess' Law.
 * Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 + Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015**

Since the enthalpies of formation have been tabulated for many compounds it makes determining the molar enthalpy of a reaction very straight forward using Hess' Law.

Homework: From the Handout from Wednesday #17, 19, 20, 23, 24 Mini Laboratory - Determining the enthalpy change for the combustion of magnesium using Hess' Law.
 * Friday, Sept. 25, 2015**

Bond Enthalpies:
 * Monday, Sept. 28, 2015**
 * Definition, bond making is exothermic and bond breaking is endothermic
 * Looked at how bond enthalpies can be used to determine the enthalpy change of a system.

Homework:

Here are some practice problems and solution for Topic 5 problems -

The Higher Level Energy stuff.
 * Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 + Monday, Oct. 5, 2015**
 * Discussed why some reactions are spontaneous while others are not
 * The two competing forces related to this are enthalpy and entropy.
 * The concept of Gibb's Free Energy and how it relates to spontaneity.
 * Practice Problems with Gibb's Free Energy - [[file:Entropy and Spontaneity - Google Docs.pdf]]

- In case you want to read some of my ramblings.

Homework: +

Topic 6 - Introduction to rates of reactions
 * Tuesday, Oct. 6 - 2015**
 * What is a rate?
 * How do I determine the rate of a chemical reaction?
 * What does a high rate look like? What does a low rate look like?
 * How do the rates of a chemical reaction always have the same shape.

Homework: Read - Complete p. 272 # 1 - 4.

More Homework: Create a design laboratory that deals with rates of reactions this will be completed on Wednesday, Oct. 7 and Friday, Oct. 9.

More Homework: This is to be completed by Monday and I will take up any questions related to this information then. This homework is in the form of an EDpuzzle which is a video with embedded questions. You are to go to the website www.edpuzzle.com and sign up as a student with your first and last name. You will then find my class by adding this class code ax4Ara.

Design Laboratory - Factors that affect rates of reactions.
 * Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015 + Friday, Oct. 9 - 2015**

Nothing most of you are gone on the TedTalk.
 * Thursday, Oct. 8 - 2015**

Completing the Design Laboratory...what joy.
 * Friday, Oct. 9 - 2015 + Tuesday, Oct. 13 + Wednesday, Oct. 14**

Rates of reactions
 * Thursday, Oct. 15 - 2015**
 * What we need to measure to determine a rate
 * How do we calculate the rate of a reaction both an instantaneous rate and an average rate
 * Typical shape of a rate curve and the reason why

Homework: - p. 272 #1 - 4 + p.270 - Thought Lab to be handed in on Monday


 * BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK....if you are participating in Science Olympiad you are to complete the readings assigned on Friday, By Monday. **

Read Topic 6 from the textbook and attempt problems p. 177 # 1 - 9
 * Friday, Oct. 16 - 2015**

Discussed the concept of collision theory and the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution and how they can be used to explain the factors that affect the rates of chemical reactions including: Temperature, Concentration, Surface Area, Catalyst and Nature of the reactants.
 * Monday, Oct. 19 - 2015**

Here is an exemplar Design laboratory -


 * Design Laboratory - DUE - Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2015 **

Quantitative Chemical Kinetics - The Rate Law
 * Tuesday, Oct. 20 - 2015**
 * Investigating how we can describe how concentration of the reactants affects the chemical reaction
 * Looked at zeroth, first and second order reactions

Example Problems - Homework: p. 284 # 5 - 8 + p. 287 # 9 - 12 -

Reaction Mechanisms - How chemical reactions usually occur as a series of simple elementary steps.
 * Wednesday, Oct. 21 - 2015 + Thursday, Oct. 22 - 2015**



Arrhenius Equation - Basically the way that we incorporate all of the other factors into the rate law.
 * Friday, Oct. 23 - 2015:**

Homework:

Discussed the laboratory we will completing to determine the activation energy of a chemical reaction. Worked on Practice Problems related to Topic 16 - Do not forget the test on Friday. Laboratory-
 * Monday, Oct. 26 - 2015**

Laboratory - Using the Arrhenius equation to determine the activation energy. - Error Analysis - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1liS0VB1WoLneSPUBD9dD8Bvp9KE5PNp1L9QhGmWqRzI/edit?usp=sharing
 * Tuesday, Oct. 27 - 2015**

The Data from the lab: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tcN3-AJEP57C-wDgG36HJ7NxQWmylbBWM8kfrZRS-Y/edit?usp=sharing

It Naming Day:
 * Wednesday, Oct. 28 - 2015 + Thursday, Oct. 29 - 2015**
 * Naming and drawing alkanes, alkenes and alkynes.
 * Always start with the longest chain (note for alkenes and alkynes the longest chain must contain the double or triple bonds)
 * Number branches so that the smallest numerical values are obtained.

Homework:

All the Organics you can handle -

TEST - Topics 6 and 16
 * Friday, Oct. 30 - 2015**

More Naming....cyclic compounds, halogenoalkanes
 * Monday, Nov. 2 - 2015**

How halogenoalkanes can be used to test for saturated and unsaturated compounds.

Homework:

Benzene and how its structure is 'special' Naming benzene structures with benzene as both the parent and the chain.
 * Tuesday, Nov. 3 - 2015**

The concept of a homologous series and how it relates to boiling points and the amount of energy produced during a combustion reaction.

General formulas for alkanes, alkenes and alkynes and the general formation for the complete combustion and incomplete combustion of an alkane.


 * Quiz - Thursday on Naming the stuff up to and including today. **

Homework:

IB Day YAY!!!
 * Wednesday, Nov. 4 - 2015**

The idea of a homogolous series - the fact that it gradually increases the various properties of the compound and they change by the same 'unit'
 * Thursday, Nov. 5 - 2015**

The idea of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons and to test for it.

The free radical mechanism for the creation of halogenoalkanes.

Homework: Read and store

The Free Radical Mechanism.
 * Friday, Nov. 6 - 2015**

Alkenes - Properties and Reactions
 * Monday, Nov. 9, 2015**

Alcohols + Ethers: Nomenclature, Reactions and Physical Properties.
 * Tuesday, Nov. 10 - 2015**

Aldehydes and Ketones: Nomenclature, reactions and Physical Properties
 * Wednesday, Nov. 11 - 2015**

Homework:

Carboxylic Acids: Nomenclature, reactions and Physical Properties
 * Thursday, Nov. 12 - 2015**

Homework - This contains homework for the carboxylic acid + review. When completing the review just look at the naming ones. If you see one with a Nitrogen or a structure like R - O - C - R, skip it these are amines and esters. The answers are at the end. - O

Introduction to the new IA.
 * Friday, Nov. 13 - 2015**

Exemplars -

Marks for Exemplar - [|HERE]

Esters: Naming, Reactions and Properties
 * Monday, Nov. 16 - 2015**

Homework:

Amines, Amides and Nitriles: Nomenclature, reactions and physical properties
 * Tuesday, Nov. 17 - 2015**

Homework:

Nucleophilic substitution reaction Sn1 and Sn2 reaction mechanisms.
 * Wednesday, Nov. 18 - 2015**

Homework:

First IA Day.
 * Thursday, Nov. 19 - 2015**

Practice Problem - Organic Chemistry
 * Monday, Nov. 23 - 2015**


 * Tuesday, Nov. 24 - 2015 +** **Wednesday, Nov. 25 - 2015 +** **Thursday, Nov. 26 - 2015 + Friday, Nov. 27 - 2015**

IA Days - Make the most of them!

TEST - Organic Chemistry
 * Monday, Nov. 30 - 2015**

Looking at how we can determine the identity of organic compounds using various spectroscopic techniques.
 * Tuesday, Dec. 1 - 2015**



H - NMR and IR spectroscopic techniques.
 * Wednesday, Dec. 2 - 2015 + Thursday, Dec. 3 - 2015**

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Practice Problems dealing with spectroscopic data - [|HERE]
 * Friday, Dec. 4 - 2015**

Identifying a molecule using MS and IR Spectrum data.
 * Monday, Dec. 7 - 2015**

Introduction to redox reactions:
 * Tuesday, Dec. 8 - 2015**
 * What is a redox reaction
 * The concept of oxidation and reductions and the transfer of electrons
 * Half reactions and net ionic equations
 * Oxidation numbers for more complicated reactions

Oxidizing and reducing agents - What makes a good oxidizing agent? What makes a good reducing agent? Where are they located in the data booklet?
 * Wednesday, Dec. 9 - 2015**

Balancing Redox Reactions in both acidic and basic solutions using the half reaction method.
 * Thursday, Dec. 10 - 2015**

Homework:

Predicting Redox Reactions and Spontaneity
 * Friday, Dec. 11 - 2015**

Homework:

The Voltaic Cell - What does it look like - How does it work? - The concept of the cathode and the anode
 * Monday, Dec. 14 - 2015 + Tuesday, Dec. 15 - 2015**

Quiz - Redox Reactions and Balancing Redox Reactions with spontaneity

Homework:


 * Wednesday, Dec. 16 - 2015**
 * Pot Luck**

Building a voltaic cell and determining the electric potential.
 * Thursday, Dec. 17 - 2015**

Basically nothing
 * Friday, Dec. 18 - 2015**

The following videos are for you to watch and make notes on during the break.
 * Christmas Break Work: **

The Winkler Experiment for Dissolved Oxygen - [|VIDEO] (15 minutes) The Option - We will be doing the biochemistry option in class, however I will only be spending a few days on it. You must read the option from the textbook and watch the videos found [|HERE] or [|HERE] related to this option. Please consult the Guide to guide you on what information you are expected to know with respect to this material.

Practice Problems related to Topic 9
 * Monday, Jan 4 - 2015**

Also please watch this [|VIDEO] which discusses the factors that affect the amount of compound produced in an electrolytic cell.

Topic 7 - Introduction to Dynamic Equilibrium
 * Tuesday, Jan 5 - 2015**
 * What is a dynamic equilibrium?
 * Rates of reactions the concept of forward and reverse reactions
 * Concentration graphs
 * Examples

Homework:

Looking at the factors that affect the position of an equilibrium
 * Wednesday, Jan 6 - 2015**

Mini Lab


 * Thursday, Jan 7 - 2015**
 * Quest - Topic 9 - Redox Reactions, the voltaic and electrolytic cell **

Finish discussing Le Chatelier's Principle.

Finish Le Chatelier's Principle looking at exactly how pressure, temperature, concentration and catalysts affect the equilibrium position of a system.
 * Friday, Jan 8 - 2015**

Homework: - Please try numbers 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 16

Equilibrium Law:
 * Using the balanced chemical equation to determine the equilibrium constant
 * The equilibrium constant is a value that always holds true for a given reaction (at a constant temperature) since a given reaction will always end at the same concentrations.



Finding Equilibrium Concentrations using the equilibrium law.
 * Monday, Jan 11 + Tuesday, Jan 12 - 2015**

Homework: - Try # 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26

Bringing in acids and bases with equilibrium the idea of Ka and Kb and how they are related and where pH fits into all of this equilibrium awesomeness.
 * Wednesday, Jan 13 - 2015**

I will be away today....time to start reviewing.
 * Thursday, Jan 14 - 2015**

Acid - Base Equilbrium
 * Friday, Jan 15 - 2015**

Homework - (please exclude #15 and #17)

Practice Day - Solving Equilibrium Problems - [|HERE].
 * Monday, Jan 18 - 2016**

School Wide Pot Luck
 * Tuesday, Jan 19 - 2016**

Test - Equilibrium
 * Wednesday, Jan 20 - 2016**

Biochemistry - The Highlights Readings - Please Read Option B -
 * Thursday, Jan 21 - 2016 +** **Friday, Jan 22 - 2016**


 * Monday, Jan 25 - Wednesday, Jan 27 - 2016**
 * Review**

Suggested way to study. 1. Read through all of your notes completing the example problems on your own. 2. Attempt some of the review problems and if you have difficulty with any question go back to that part of your note and review. 3. Try those problems that we do in class working station to station 4. Complete the tests done in class.

Old Practice Papers can be found [|HERE]


 * IB Exam Review:**

I would go through the course guide topic by topic and make study notes on exactly what is stated in the topic.

Here is a [|link] to a series of videos which details the most common 100 mistakes made on the IB Chemistry SL exam.

Old Practice Papers can be found [|HERE] and [|HERE]. and topic specific questions [|HERE]. and Notes [|HERE].