Exam 2 Objectives
| 1 | The student will be able to construct a voltaic cell ("General Chemistry Battery"), and identify all components and details. |
| 2 | The student will be able to determine the oxidation number of species. |
| 3 | The student will be able to balance redox reactions, identify oxidizing agents, reducing agents, species reduced, species oxidized, species gaining electrons, species loosing electrons, number of electrons transferred. |
| 4 | The student will be able to balance redox reactions in acid (not in base). |
| 5 | The student will be able to determine the mass of a metal deposited, the current required, or the time required during a plating process. |
| 6 | The student will be able to determine cell potentials. |
| 7 | The student will be able to discuss how a battery stops working. |
| 8 | The student will be able to discuss primary and secondary (including Li-ION) cells and their uses, and the electrolysis of water. |
| 9 | The student will be able to balance nuclear reactions. |
| 10 | The student will be able to discuss the five types of radioactive decay. |
| 11 | The student will be able to discuss the carbon cycle and radiocarbon dating. |
| 12 | The student will be able to calculate decay constants. |
| 13 | The student will be able to calculate the time required for a sample to decay. |
| 14 | The student will be able to estimate the time required for a sample to decay. |
| 15 | The student will be able to discuss the energetics of nuclear reactions. |
| 16 | The student will be able to discuss nuclear fusion and fission. |
| 17 | The student will be able to discuss the applications of nuclides. |
| 18 | The student will be able to identify and discuss the properties of ligands (Lewis Bases). |
| 19 | The student will be able to discuss the cation-ligand interaction in complexes (Lewis Base-Lewis Acid). |
| 20 | The student will be able to identify monodentates (Cl-, F-, Br-, H2O, NH3, CN-, OH-), bidentates (en, ox), and hexadentates (edta). |
| 21 | The student will be able to identify the Lewis base portion of ligands (the lone pair of e-). |
| 22 | The student will be able to determine the coordination number in complexes. |
| 23 | The student will be able to sketch and give chemical formulas of octahedral complexes. |
| 24 | The student will be able to sketch and label geometric isomers (cis- and trans-; mer- and fac-) of octahedral complexes. |
| 25 | The student will be able to identify complexes as polar or non-polar. |
| 26 | The student will be able to discuss the splitting of the d-orbitals in octahedral complexes. |