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Topics for High School Chemistry Scholarship
Examination
- Indiana Section - American Chemical Society
- Laboratory (procedures, equipment, safety)
- Nomenclature (IUPAC, common)
- Mathematics (scientific notation, significant digits)
- Descriptive chemistry
- Atomic structure (quantum numbers, electron configurations,
orbitals, spectra)
- Periodic properties (atomic and ionic radii, electronegativity)
- Mass relationships (atomic weights, molar weights, percentage
composition, empirical formulas)
- Stoichiometry (limiting reagent, theoretical yield, percent
yield, net ionic equation)
- Thermochemistry (calorimetry, heat of reaction)
- Gas laws (Boyle, Charles, Avogadro, ideal, Dalton, kinetic theory,
van der Waals)
- Bonding (Lewis theory, valence bond theory, molecular orbital
theory)
- Molecular structure (Lewis structures, valence shell electron
pair repulsion model)
- Solutions (concentration units, colligative properties, solution
stoichiometry)
- Thermodynamics (enthalpy, entropy, free energy)
- Chemical equilibrium (non-ionic)
- Acids, bases and ionic equilibrium (strengths, pH, pOH, Ka,
Ksp)
- Oxidation-reduction reactions (oxidation numbers, equations,
cell potentials, electrochemistry)
- Nuclear chemistry (nuclear structure, reactions, decay)
- Kinetics (activation energy, reaction rate, order of reaction,
catalysis)
- Solids and liquids (crystal structures, intermolecular forces,
phase diagrams)
- Organic chemistry (introductory ideas, simple functional groups)
The above topics are meant to be a guide to the contents of the
exam. Parenthetical topics are only meant to be examples. These
topics are neither equally important nor equally weighted although
the Committee considers topical order and likelihood of student
practice.
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