AP® / UNDERGRAD CHEMISTRY

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course is based on the College Board's Advanced Placement® Chemistry curriculum which is comparable to a first-year undergraduate inorganic chemistry course for chemistry, biology, or engineering majors. The first half of the course reinforces many of the fundamental concepts and basic principles studied in the first-year course while the second half explores more challenging topics that may be more novel. Some of the topics explored include chemical reactivity and bonding through the development of the modern theory of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, and electrochemistry. Laboratory investigations are extensive and often inquiry-based. 

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The College Board has designed the AP® Chemistry curriculum around six Big Ideas and seven Science Practices that integrate throughout the course. The curriculum framework incorporates the design of these elements in addition to a strong inquiry wet-lab work focus.

Unit Content

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The following are popular textbooks that this course connects with:

Chemistry, 14th Ed.

Chang, Overby

Chemistry, 10th ed.

Zumdahl, Zumdahl, DeCoste

Chemistry, 15th ed.

Brown, LeMay, et al.

Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity

Kotz, Trichel, et al.