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Spring 2008

Dr. Schaak's Lecture Notes
These are copies of lecture notes that will be shown during lectures.
You are encouraged to print these viewgraphs and bring them to class.  The notes are not complete. You should bring extra paper and plan to add to them during lecture.

Date	Lecture Topic
	PDF files	Lecture Notes provided by Dr. Alan Benesi
Jan. 14	Introduction Kinetics, Part 1	NMR Spectra
Jan. 16-18	Kinetics, Part 2 Kinetics, Part 3 Kinetics, Part 4
Jan. 28-30	Equilibrium
Feb. 1-8	Acids and Bases 1 Acids and Bases 2
Feb. 11-15	Ka, Kb, Salt Solutions Chemical Structure/Lewis Theory
Feb. 20	Common Ions & Buffers Titrations Solubility and Complex Ions
Feb. 25	Thermodynamics	Gibbs' Cute Trick
Mar. 7	Thermodynamics II Electrochemistry Voltaic Cells	Useful Equations Lead Acid Battery Details
Mar. 17	Batteries
Mar. 24	Nuclear Chemistry Medical Nuclear
Apr. 9	Periodicity
Apr. 11	Chemistry of the Elements
Apr. 16	Metallurgy Transition Metals
Apr. 23	Liquids and Solids
Apr. 25	Modern Materials: Metal Properties
Apr. 30	Modern Materials: Polymers and Ceramics