Course Schedule
Below is the complete schedule for our 7-week summer course (June 29 - August 14).
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Week 1 (June 29 - July 4)
| Day |
Date |
Topics |
| 1 |
Sunday, June 29 |
Program orientation (no class) |
| 2/3 |
Monday/Tuesday, June/July 30/1 |
Course overview. Math and Physics Fundamentals. |
| 4/5 |
Wednesday/Thursday, July 2/3 |
Atomic Structure. |
Week 2 (July 5 - July 11)
| Day |
Date |
Topics |
| 6/7 |
Saturday/Sunday, July 5/6 |
Periodic table, Lewis Diagrams, and VSEPR. |
| 8/9 |
Monday/Tuesday, July 7/8 |
Inter Molecular Forces, Properties of Substances, Chromatography, Distillation and Spectroscopy. |
| 10/11 |
Wednesday/Thursday, July 9/10 |
Stoichiometry, Yield and Compound Formation. |
Week 3 (July 12 - July 18)
| Day |
Date |
Topic |
| 12/13 |
Saturday/Sunday, July 12/13 |
Continuum Hypothesis, Kinetic Molecular Theory, Ideal Gas Law, and Equations of State. |
| 14/15 |
Monday/Tuesday, July 14/15 |
First Law, Enthalpies, Heat of Reaction, and Hess' Law. |
| 16/17 |
Wednesday/Thursday, July 16/17 |
Conduction, Convection, Radiation, and Specific Heat Capacity. |
Week 4 (July 19 - July 25)
| Day |
Date |
Topic |
| 18/19 |
Saturday/Sunday, July 19/20 |
Intro to Kinetics, Arrhenius Law, Activation Energy, and Steady State Approximation. |
| 20/21 |
Monday/Tuesday, July 21/22 |
Law of Mass Action, Factors Affecting Rates (Catalysts) and Radioactive Decay. |
| 22/23 |
Wednesday/Thursday, July 23/24 |
Reversible Reactions, Equilibrium, and Equilibrium Constants and Le Chatelier. |
Week 5 (July 26 - August 1)
| Day |
Date |
Topic |
| 24/25 |
Saturday/Sunday, July 26/27 |
Acids and Bases, Bronsted-Lowry,and Ionic Equations. |
| 26/27 |
Monday/Tuesday, July 28/29 |
pH and pOH, Conjugates and Buffers. |
| 28/29 |
Wednesday/Thursday, July 30/31 |
Redox and Oxidation numbers. |
Week 6 (August 2 - August 8)
| Day |
Date |
Topic |
| 30/31 |
Saturday/Sunday, August 2/3 |
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Gibbs Free Energy. |
| 32/33 |
Monday/Tuesday, August 4/5 |
Galvanic Cell, Electrolysis and Nernst Equation. |
| 34/35 |
Wednesday/Thursday, August 6/7 |
Intro to Organic, Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes, Isomers: Structural and Optical. |
Week 7 (August 9 - August 15)
| Day |
Date |
Topic |
| 36/37 |
Saturday/Sunday, August 9/10 |
Functional Groups; Alcohols, Ethers, Aldehydes, Ketones, Carboxylic Acids, Esters and Amines. |
| 38/39 |
Monday/Tuesday, August 11/12 |
Addition, Cracking, Nucleophiles and Electrophiles. |
| 40/41 |
Wednesday/Thursday, August 13/14 |
Interactive Q/A and Review. |