Upon completion of this course students will demonstrate the ability to…

• Think critically and cogently about causal relationships with scientific reasoning.
• Assess previous experimentation and published scientific results.
• Critically examine and evaluate scientific observation, hypothesis or model construction.
• Articulate a variety of issues created by the complex interactions among science, technology, and society.
• Use scientific perspectives to evaluate contemporary problems facing society.
• Differentiate between accuracy and precision in measurements.
• Report measurements and calculations to the proper number of significant figures.
• Solve problems using the Unit-Label/Dimensional Analysis method.
• Discuss the structure of the atom and organization of the periodic table.
• Name and write formulas for ionic and molecular compounds.
• Solve problems using mole relationships.
• Balance chemical equations and predict products of chemical reactions.
• Use balanced chemical equations to solve stoichiometry problems.
• Write net ionic equations for double replacement reactions.
• Identify and balance redox reactions using the half - reaction method.
• Solve problems using solution concentration (molarity).
• Solve problems using the gas laws.
• Solve problems using the First Law of Thermodynamics.
• Relate the spectrum of an element to the structure of the atom.
• Write the electron configuration for and element and relate to the structure of the atom.
• Name and identify the four quantum numbers for an element.
• Predict properties of elements based on the trends of the periodic table.
• Differentiate between ionic and covalent bonding.
• Draw Lewis structures and predict molecular geometry of a molecule.
• Predict and explain the polarity of a molecule.
• Explain the geometry of a molecule using one of the bonding theories.