General Chemistry Spring 2009

In today's class we continued our discussion on the concept of chemical equilibrium. We explored a chemical reaction by perrforming a number of experiments beginning with different initial amounts of reactants and predicting the ending amounts. After collecting data we discussed the idea of the equilibrium constant, and the equilibrium constant expression. We worked on several types of problems to understand the nature of the equilibrium expression and how to use an ICE Table to organize all of the information we needed to track for equilibrium reactions.

In today's class we discussed intramolecular (ionic bonds and covalent bonds) and intermolecular attractive forces (hydrogen-bonding, dipole-dipole and London dispersion forces).