Arkansas State University Department of Chemistry and Physics

Students should know the following:

a) Types of reactions: single displacement, metal displacement, double displacement

b) Precipitation reactions: Net ionic equations, Solubility rules

c) Redox reactions: Oxidation states

d) Combustion reactions

e) Neutralization reactions: properties of acids and bases

f) Acid - Base definitions: Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis

g) pH, pH scale

h)  acid - base strength; % ionization and concentration, strong acids

i) Titration Calculations

j) Thermochemical equations 

k) Enthalpy; exothermic, endothermic; calorimetry, First Law of Thermodynamics;

l) State functions; standard states

m) Heats of formation

n) Calculation of enthalpy change from:
        i) heats of formation
        ii) Hess' Law
 
 
 
 

Revised 11/7/06