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amphiprotic molecules are molecules that can act as a either a base or an acid such as water which can either give off a proton or accept one.

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yes I believe that the only situation when we can approximate for X is when K is smaller than or equal to 10^-4

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i believe that you should only look at the moles of gas since they are the ones that will be affected by the change in pressure.

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a reaction is endothermic if the reaction requires heat and its exothermic when the reaction gives off heat. A good way to tell the difference in a problem is whether the change in enthalpy is positive (endothermic) or negative (exothermic). I hope this helps!!

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to determine the change and whether it will increase or decrease, you have to look at the context of the question and determine which way the reaction is going. if the reaction is going forward then you will be adding to products and if the reaction is going backwards then you will be adding to the ...

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Yes, you are correct! Q is found the same way as K and you use Q when the reaction has not reached equilibrium.

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I agree! I believe that you have to look at the entire reaction to determine if the equilibrium is either homogenous or heterogeneous.

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Concentrations cannot be negative since it is moles divided by liters and you can't measure negative amounts of either.

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you should pick the x value that is possible in the context of the problem so it should be positive and a smaller value than the initial concentrations.

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Yes, you are right to assume that! the reason that the concentrations of reactants and products do not change is because the forward and reverse reactions are occurring at the same rate.

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the way that I remember the definition of both the lewis and bronsted acid/base is that if a molecule is accepting either a proton or lone pair then it will be a donor of the alternate definition. So the "acceptor" and "donor" will switch for the lewis and bronsted definition of ...

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I found that using arrows to draw out the dipole moments is the best way of determining if a molecule is polar or nonpolar because it is the one way to find out for sure if the dipoles will cancel out since you can also look at the molecule's structure as well.

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Yes! proton and H+ are interchangeable since H+ does not have any electrons

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Yes! I believe that alkaline and basic are synonymous with each other

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the wedges and dashes are used to help us visualize the 3D structures so wedge means that it is coming towards you and the dash means that it is going away from you. I hope this helps!!

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you can determine the coordination compound by adding up all the bonds that the ligands can form with the TM. Usually, when I am finding the coordination compound, I will always identify how many bonding sites each ligand has and then note how many of each ligand there is. So in your example, I woul...

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yes, a nonpolar molecule can have polar bonds but that means that it has an overall dipole moment of zero since its dipoles will cancel out.

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I agree with what is being said above, the final will likely be the same set up as the midterms where we will need the secondary device to be running a zoom call.

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Dentate refers to the bonding sites that a ligand has. So in a tetradentate ligand, there are 3 bonding sites.

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I believe that right now all we need to know is that the porphyrin ligand is square planar because Dr. Lavelle had made the distinction in the lecture. For the other ligands where he has not explicitly stated if it was either square planar or tetrahedral we just need to know that it can be either on...

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you can determine the hybridization of phosphorus by adding up the regions of electron density of that atom which includes lone pairs and bonds. I hope this helps!!

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After drawing out the lewis structures, you would identify the amount of bonds between the atoms and if there is one bond, it will be a sigma bond, and if there are two bonds, then it will be one sigma and one pi bond. For triple bonds, it is one sigma bond and 2 pi bonds. I hope this helps!!

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to approach this problem you would look for the molecules that has resonance structures since it indicates that electrons are spread throughout the molecule, thus the electrons are delocalized.

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to find the hybrized orbital you would count up all the regions of electron density that the oxygen has and use that to determine its hybridization. Since oxygen has 2 lone pairs and 2 bonds, it has 4 regions of electron density so its hybridization is sp^3

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I would follow what Dr. Lavelle said and have the arrows point toward the more electronegative atoms. I hope this helps!!

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I believe that electrons from the outermost orbitals would be taken as it takes the least amount of energy to remove them and have a smaller effective nuclear charge.

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yes!! lone pairs do count as their own region of electron density so they affect the shape of the molecule.

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An atom can have an expanded octet if it is in row 3 or below so if you are drawing lewis structures and you have leftover electrons, then they may belong to an atom with an expanded octet.

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london dispersion forces are always present in molecules, including when there are other forces occuring

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I recommend looking at the images for each of the shapes and trying to quiz yourself on them. I also like to draw them out myself during lectures from the models that Professor holds up since it helps me to remember and understand it if I have drawn it out myself but this is just what works for me! ...

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we probably will just have to determine if a certain ms will be possible in a set of 4 quantum numbers and we already know it can either be +1/2 or -1/2

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when drawing lewis structures, I believe that its best when the central atom has a formal charge thats either 0 or close to it.

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the part that is incorrect about this problem is that Carbon's formal charge is -2 because it has 4 valence, 2 single bonds, and 4 lone electrons. When you plug all those numbers into the formal charge equation FC= valence- (bonds+ lone electrons), you get -2

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hydrogen bonds arent present in CH3CHO because none of the hydrogens are bonded to the oxygen. In order for a H-bond to form Hydrogen must be covalently bonded to either N,F, or O

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we make covalent bonds between atoms when one of the atoms donates the 2 electrons to form the bond.

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resonance is the concept that some lewis strucutres have mulitple ways that you can draw certain bonds for it

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The reason that these elements are exceptions to the octet rule is that they can only have a maximum of 2 valence electrons

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What Professor Lavelle was discussing with BF3 was that Boron will complete its octet from an additional flourine that will form a coordinate covalent bond since it will be contributing the additional 2 electrons for the bond. I believe that is allowed since Boron does not have a full octet and can ...

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there can only be 2 electrons per orbital because each will have opposite spins of either +1/2 or -1/2 that are paired together.

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Electrons will fill orbital levels of lowest energy first and 4s has a lower energy than 3d. I also agree with the post above about the chart on how to fill the orbitals, its super helpful!!

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When you are given a percentage as your uncertainty you would have to multiply the percentage by the position value, to get your uncertainty. So in the example you gave, the uncertainty in position would be (.02)(5)= .1.

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I believe that E=hv is occasionally denoted as E=hf to avoid confusion as v can also mean velocity for other equations.

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Hi! On our equation sheets "v" for frequency is italicized and "v" for velocity is not. One way that helps me remember is to look at the context of the problem, for example if you are dealing with kinectic energy or momentum, then "v" will be velocity. I hope this helps!!

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The Rydberg Equation is another method for finding the emitted or absorbed light following quantum level change and it's simliar to the Empirical Equation for hydrogen in that Rydberg is derived from it. Both of these equations can only be used for Hydrogen atoms and 1 electron systems.

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For our purposes, I believe that "c" will always be the speed of light

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HI!! wavelength is measured in meters and frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz). Hertz is also equal to (s/1). Some questions ask for the wavelength in nanometers so I would be careful of those and make sure to convert my answer at the end.

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I think that you should use the Rydberg constant (3.29 * 10^15) that we were given in class for any equation and then you can convert the answer you get into whatever units you need to later on but that's just what I find to be easiest for me!!

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the limiting reactant will always limit the amount of product formed. The amount of product is dependant on how much reactants there are so if there is a limiting reactant, then it will affect the whole chemical equation.

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mmol means millimole which is 1/1000 of a mole

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I believe that the axis work the same as normal x and y-axis that we have learned about in our previous classes. The z-axis is what takes the orbitals from 2 dimensional to 3 dimensional.

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It does not matter which unit you should use unless the problem specifically states so to use a specific unit. I believe that keeping your answer in meters should be fine for the most part.

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HI! I was confused about the same thing at first but the energy of the photon must match the difference in energy levels or else the electron will not move energy levels. This relates to the image on the lecture of the emission spectrum for the hydrogen atom where the wavelengths correspond to energ...

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"work" is the amount of energy required to remove an electron from metal, it is also referred to as the threshold energy. If the energy of the photon is not equal to or greater than the work function then no electrons will be emitted. You know whether to apply it in an equation when you ar...

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there can be many approaches to balancing an equation! I always start with a chart that has how many elements are on each side of the equation and then update it as I go along to keep track. I usually start with the molecules that have the most elements, as those sometimes are the most complicated, ...

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the equation 1/2mv^2 is used for finding the kinetic or excess energy of electrons

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Hi! You can do either but if you round in between steps then you run the risk that your final answer will be a little off so for me, I usually try to go as close to the exact number so my answer is as accurate as it can be. Although, there will be some cases where while you are doing the steps the a...

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Hi!! To find the moles of CuNO3, you start with the formula to find moles which is mass given (g) divided by molar mass (g.mol). This will give you the amount of moles of CuNO3 which you can plug into the molarity formula of Molarity= number of moles of solute/ volume in liters. Once you plug everyt...

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Hello, For this problem you would start by finding the molar mass of each compound. You then divide the mass of Carbon( 12.011) by each molar mass and then multiply by 100 to find the percent. This will be the mass percent composition of carbon and you can repeat this process with the other compound...

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Hi!
You were correct in that the bonded molecules a mole of that molecule, however, in the product side of the box there are 8 moles of hydrogen so your balanced equation will be 2H4Si+ 4H2O ---> 2SiO2+ 8H2. I hope that this helps!

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Hello,
There will be some cases where there will be stoichiometric coefficients given in the equation where they will still be unbalanced. I would just make sure to double-check each equation! hope this helps :)

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