Understand Your Learning Questions
"What should my chemistry students know before they get to college?"
Questions by Topic:
Laws of Conservation
Balancing Chemical Equations:
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table:
- If an atom gains 2 electrons, what does it become?
- Keywords: ions, anions, cations, electrons, charge
- What are the three types of subatomic particles and their respective charges?
- Keywords: subatomic particles, protons, neutrons, electrons, nucleus, charged particles
- How many neutrons does C-14 have?
- Keywords: isotopes, isotope notation, nuclide notation, hyphen notation, mass number
Math Fundamentals
- How would 90,000 be written in scientific notation?
- Keywords: scientific notation
- What is the cube root of 125?
- Keywords: roots, cube root, calculator
- Solve log10100=? and rearrange the completed equation into exponent notation.
- Keywords: logarithms, exponents
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SI Units & Unit Conversions
- Which is larger 2 kg or 6,000,000g?
- Keywords: dimensional analysis, unit conversions, kilograms to grams
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Solution Concentration
- What is the concentration of a solution after you diluted 40 mL of a 6 M solution to prepare 210 mL of this solution?
- Keywords: dilutions, solution, concentration
- How many moles are required to make a 60mL solution of 2.4 mL of nitric acid?
- Keywords: molarity, solution, concentration
Moles & Molar Mass
- Calculate the mass, in grams, of 2.89 x 1023 moles of KBr.
- Keywords: Avogadro's Number, moles, molar mass
- How many moles are there in an 8.3 kg sample of C3H6O?
- Keywords: molar mass, unit conversions
Net Ionic & Acid-Base Equations
- Write the balanced chemical equation for the reaction between hydromic acid and sodiun hydroxide including the state of each compound.
- Keywords: solubility rules, acid-base reaction, net ionic equation, aqueous state
- What is the final net ionic equation when hydroiodic acid is reacted with lithium hydroxide?
- Keywords: solubility rules, acid-base reaction, net ionic equation, aqueous state
Stoichiometry & Limiting Reactants
- How many grams of O2 would you need to react with 5 grams of AI?
- Keywords: stoichiometry, molar mass, gram to mole conversions, stoichiometry with diatomic elements
- When you react 10 grams of AI with 12 grams of O2, which is the limiting reagent and which is the excess reagent?
- Keywords: stoichiometry, molar mass, gram to mole conversions, stoichiometry with diatomic elements, limiting reactant, excess reactant
Gas Laws unit
- A sample of chlorine gas initially at 400C was compressed with a constant pressure from an initial volume of 80 mL to a volume of 25 mL. What is the final temperature of the sample?
- Keywords: Charles's Law, gas laws, volume, temperature
- A 60 L gas sample with an initial pressure of 680 mmHg is expanded to a volume of 120 L What is the final pressure of this complex?
- Keywords: Boyle's Law, gas laws, pressure, volume
Significant Figures
- How many significant figures are in the following numerical value: 654.0
- Keywords: counting significant figures, significant figures rules
- How many significant figures are in the following numerical value: 0.0250
- Keywords: adding and subtracting with significant figures, multiplying and dividing with significant figures, rounding rules
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Formulas & Ionic Compounds
All four questions are answered in this video.
- What is the chemical formula of calcium chloride?
- Write the name of the ionic compound KBr?
- Write the chemical formula for ammonium sulfide.
- What is the name of the compound Mg(OH)2?
- Keywords: writing ionic compound formulas, ionic compound nomenclature, naming ionic compounds, polyatomic ions