Study Guide for Final

Spring 2016 Study Guide for Final

Topics to be covered:

·         Conservation of Mass

·         Moles, Molar Mass, and Molecules

·         Nuclear Processes/Radioactivity

·         Thermodynamics and Energy

Vocabulary

Law of conservation of mass

Reactants

Products

Moles

Molar mass

Nuclear fusion vs. fission

Isotopes

Alpha decay

Beta decay

Gamma ray decay

Penetrating power

Half-life

Greenhouse gases

Climate change

Atomic number

Atomic mass

Thermal energy

Heat flow

Temperature

Exothermic

Endothermic

Specific Heat

Law of conservation of energy

Know how to do the following:

Moles and Conservation of mass

·         Convert grams of molecules to number of moles (and the reverse) and molecules

·         Understand what Avogadro’s number represents

·         Molar mass of molecules and what they represent

·         Relationship between average atomic mass and number of moles

Nuclear Chemistry

·         Calculating how much of sample is left in half-life questions

·         Calculating how long a sample has been decaying for based on how much of an element has decayed/remains

·         Identifying missing elements in nuclear decay equations

·         Comparison of penetrating power of each type of decay

·         Writing down alpha and beta decay reactions of nuclear active elements

·         Problems of fossil fuels vs. nuclear power plants

·         Pros and cons of nuclear power plants

·         Compare fusion vs. fission reactions for amount of energy released

Thermodynamics

·         Modeling of molecular movements of gas, liquid and solid

·         Difference between solid, liquid and gas in terms of energy and shape

·         Modeling of heat flow and molecular movements depending on temperature

·         Examples of endothermic and exothermic reactions

·         Units of specific heat equation and each symbol

·         Calculating heat, specific heat, grams or change in temperature using Q = s ∙m∙DT

·         Identifying elements from the specific heat values

·         Effects of greenhouse gases/types of greenhouse gases