AP Chemistry Summer Assignment 2014

If you have not already obtained a book from Mr. Danch orMrs. Meade, do that before the end of the school year. If you signed up for AP Chemistry over thesummer, then you must obtain a book from your guidance counselor. You also must obtain two ScanTron sheets onwhich you will place your answers to the two multiple-choice assignments.

Your summer assignment consists of review material from RTrack Chemistry. One of the assignmentsis a set of open-ended questions/problems and the other two are comprehensivemultiple choice exam-style question sets. The open-ended questions should be answered on lined paper and themultiple choice questions should be answered on ScanTron sheets.

You are invited to create outlines for chapters 1-3, 4(sections 4.1 - 4.4), 5, 7, and 8 in your textbook. This assignment is optional, but will proveuseful on the major assessment of the summer assignment to be given inSeptember.

When you return in September, the answers on the scan-tronsheets along with the answers (and work)for the open-ended questions will be collected, graded and returned and reviewed. Upon completion of the reviewof these three assignments you will be given a multiple choice comprehensive emajor assessment covering the material from the summer assignments. You will be allowed to utilize chapteroutlines during this assessment.

Chemical Formulas andNaming Compounds:

In order to be proficient in writing chemical formulas andnaming compounds you need to memorize the formulas and charges of the commonmonoatomic and polyatomic ions from table 2.3 (p. 58), table 2.4 (p. 59) andtable 2.5 (p. 62) in your textbook. InAP Chemistry class or on the AP Test you are not permitted to use ion referencesheets. An optional practice quiz onchemical names and formula writing is also posted on the AP Chemistrypage. This practice quiz is to help youprepare for an additional minor assessment quiz on chemical names and formulawriting. It is suggested that after youhave studied the ion names, formulas and charges you should take the quiz andthen check use the posted answer key to check your work. When you return in September and havereviewed the formula writing quiz, you will be given a minor assessment quiz onformula writing and naming compounds.

Accessing theassignments:

Go to the Schoolwires pages for Mr. Danch or Mrs. Meade andthen click on the AP Chemistry Summer Assignmentlink. There you will see links to each of the assignments. You do not need to print theseassignments. Just bring the answers toclass in September and we will use the Smartboard to view the questions.

Expectations from RTrack Chemistry

Although the AP Chemistry curriculum is a completecollege-level chemistry course, there are various topics from R-Track Chemistrywith which you should already be familiar. The following section details these topics. The textbook and accompanying summerassignment will assist you in reviewing these topics for September.

You are expected to already be proficient in the followingtopics/skills:

  1. Scientific Methods
  2. Exponential Notation
  3. S.I. measurement, prefixes and conversions
  4. Density
  5. Significant Figures
  6. Precision and Accuracy
  7. Definitions of and relationships between Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
  8. Subatomic Particle Charges and Locations

You are expected to have a working knowledge of thefollowing definitions/concepts:

Atomic number

Mass number

Isotope

Ion

Cation

Anion

Ionic solid/salt

Chemical Bond

Molecule

Chemical Formula

Structural Formula

You should be familiar with the following fundamentalchemical laws, the scientists who formulated them, and the historic experimentsused in these formulations:

Antoine Lavoisier: The Law of Conservation of Mass

Joseph Proust: The Law of Definite Proportion

John Dalton: The Law of Multiple Proportion; The AtomicTheory

Joseph Gay-Lussac and Amadeo Avogadro: Avogadro’s Hypothesis

J. J. Thomson: Discovery of electrons and their charge to mass ratio (Cathode RayExperiments); “Plum Pudding” Model of Atomic Structure

Robert Millikan: Mass of the electron (Oil Drop Experiment)

Henri Becquerel: Discovery of radioactivity

Ernest Rutherford: Discovery and characterization of the atomicnucleus (Gold Foil Experiment)

You are expected to be familiar with the basic concept ofthe periodic table including the definition of groups or families and periodsor series, correct method of writing atomic symbols and the location and commonmembers the following groups:

Metals

Nonmetals

Metalloids or semiconductors

Alkali metals

Alkaline earth metals

Transition metals

Halogens

Noble gases

Lanthanides and actinides

You must also be able characterize elements based upon theperiodic properties of electron affinity, ionization energy, atomic radius andelectronegativity.

You must be able to write chemical formulas, both binaryionic (including polyatomic ions) and binary covalent and write compound namesgiven such chemical formulas. You mustbe able to identify different chemical reaction types and balance chemicalequations

You must be proficient in the basic calculations involvingmass and amount including:

Formula mass

Empirical formulas

Molecular formulas

Molarity

Molecular mass

Percent composition

Reaction Stoichiometry

Limiting Reagent

You must be familiar with the properties and behaviors ofgases, including calculations involving:

Boyle’s law

Charles’ law

Dalton’slaw

Combined gas law

Ideal gas law