Standard Course of Study :: Advanced Placement Chemistry

Objective 2.01

Analyze the structure of matter at the atomic level

Evidence for the atomic theory.
Atomic masses; determination by chemical and physical means.
Atomic number and mass number; isotopes.
Electron energy levels: atomic spectra, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals.
Periodic relationships including, for example, atomic radii, ionization energies, electron affinities, oxidation states.

Objective 2.02

Examine the types of chemical bonds and the nature of each

Types: ionic, covalent, metallic, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals (including London dispersion forces).
Relationships to states, structure, and properties of matter.
Polarity of bonds, electronegativities.

Objective 2.03

Analyze conceptual models of bonding and molecular shape and the relation to chemical and physical properties of matter.

Lewis structures.
VSEPR.
Valence bond: hybridization of orbitals, resonance, sigma and pi bonds.
Geometry of molecules and ions, structural isomerism of simple organic molecules and coordination complexes; dipole moments of molecules; relation of properties to structure.

Objective 2.04

Assess the impact of nuclear chemistry

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