UCI Chem 1A General Chemistry (Winter 2013) Lec 01. General Chemistry Introduction to General Chemistry View the complete course: http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/chem_1a_general_chemistry.html Instructor: Amanda Brindley, Ph.D. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Terms of Use: http://ocw.uci.edu/info. More courses at http://ocw.uci.edu Description: Chem 1A is the first quarter of General Chemistry and covers the following topics: atomic structure; general properties of the elements; covalent, ionic, and metallic bonding; intermolecular forces; mass relationships. General Chemistry (Chem 1A) is part of OpenChem: http://ocw.uci.edu/collections/open_chemistry.html This video is part of a 23-lecture undergraduate-level course titled "General Chemistry" taught at UC Irvine by Amanda Brindley, Ph.D. Recorded February 25, 2013. Index of Topics: 00:55- What We Will Cover 01:55- "Fundamentals" 02:40- Significant Figures 07:08- Significant Figures Continuted 11:44- Dimensional Analysis: Conversion Factors 12:30- Fundamental Problems 21:05- Dimensional Analysis: Conversion Factors (revisited) 22:22- Structure of an Atom 25:07- Cartoon: Another Casualty in the War of the Sodium Atoms 26:06- Isotopes, Natural Abundance, and Molecular Mass 28:20- Periodic Table 28:27- Isotopes, Natural Abundance, and Molecular Mass (revisited) 29:11- Example Problem: Average Molecular Mass 32:29- Periodic Table (revisited) 34:21- Naming 37:12- Bonding: Finding that Special Element(s) That Completes You 38:09- Types of Bonds 38:25- Periodic Table (revisited) 38:57- Types of Bonds (revisited) 40:28- Empirical Vs. Chemical Formulas 32:30- Cartoon: Ionic Bonds 43:28- Ionic Bonds 45:32- Making Ionic Compounds a Helpful Trick- Balancing Charges 46:42- Making Ionic Compounds 48:26- Charges of Atoms 50:50- Inert Pair Effect 51:36- Naming Ionic Compounds 52:36- Naming Ionic Compounds: Memorization Help Required attribution: Brindley, Amanda Ph.D. General Chemistry 1A (UCI OpenCourseWare: University of California, Irvine), http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/chem_1a_general_chemistry.html. [Access date]. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US)