Ch7 Lec 1

(4/19/20, bes)

Greetings...and welcome to Chapter 7!

Do you recall that last chapter titled "Thermochemistry" was an introduction to the larger field called Thermodynamics...and that Chem-312 is a semester long course on "thermo" that all chem/biochem students will take with me (bes). Well, chapter 7 is similar. The "electronic structure of the atom" is described by "quantum theory"...and Chem-322 is a semester long course titled Quantum Mechanics, also taught be me. So these two chapter are near and dear to my heart, but we only skim the surface of these topics in gen chem.

There is a lot of information in this chapter, so again stick with me and focus on these lecture notes. I do want you to skim the section, but as it is most important for you to understand the topics that i highlight in these notes.

ps. reminder there is a WA from Ch6 due on Tues at 5 pm.

Sec 7.9: The Building-Up Principle