Acids & Bases are pHun!
Material Potentially Covered on Quiz 1:
1) What is an acid and what are the properties of acids?
2) What is a base and what are the properties of bases?
3) What is the equilibrium of water?
4) What is the ion product constant of water?
5) What is the definition of an acidic solution in terms of the ion product constant of water?
6) What is the definition of a basic solution in terms of the ion product constant water?
7) What is the pH scale?
8) List some common household substances with in order of increasing pH.
9) How do we calculate the pH, pOH, [H+], and [OH-]?
Material Potentially Covered on Quiz 2:
10) What is a weak acid, and how does it compare to a strong acid?
11) What are the 6 common acids?
12) What is a weak base, and how does it compare to a strong base?
13) What is a polyprotic acid, give examples?
14) What is Ka and how can it be used to determine the strength of an acid?
15) Be able to do Ka calculations.
16) What is a Kb and how can it be used to determine the strength of a base?
17) Be able to do Kb calculations
18) How can we switch back and forth between Ka and Kb?
19) What is pKa and pKb and how are they useful?
Material Potentially Covered on Quiz 3
20) What is titration?
21) What is an equivalence point?
22) What is an end point?
23) What is an indicator?
24) What is a titration curve, what does one look like, and what are the significant areas on a titration curve?
25) What are the similarities and differences between strong acid/strong base titrations and weak acid/strong base or weak base/strong acid titration curves.
26) How do you do titration calculations?
Material Potentially Covered on Quiz 4
27) What is the Arrhenius definition of an acid?
28) What is the Arrhenius definition of a base?
29) What is the Bronsted-Lowry definition of an acid?
30) What is the Bronsted-Lowry definition of a base?
31) What is a conjugate acid?
32) What is a conjugate base?
33) What is a conjugate acid/base pair?
34) What is the connection between the strength of an acid and its conjugate base or base and its conjugate base?
35) What does ampiprotic mean, give examples?
36) What is a Lewis acid?
37) What is a Lewis base?
38) What is a buffer and what is in a buffer system?
39) What is an acidic anhydride?
40) What is a basic anhydride?