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Part I: Using This Book to Improve Your AP Score
Preview Activity: Your Knowledge, Your Expectations
Your Guide to Using This Book
How to Begin

Part II: Practice Test 1
Practice Test 1: Answers and Explanations

Part III: About the AP Chemistry Exam
The Structure of the AP Chemistry Exam
Overview of Content Topics
How AP Exams Are Used
Other Resources
Designing Your Study Plan

Part IV: Test-Taking Strategies for the AP Chemistry
Exam
1 How to Approach Multiple-Choice Questions
2 How to Approach Free-Response Questions

Part V: Content Review for the AP Chemistry Exam

3 Big Idea #1: Atoms, Elements, and the Building Blocks of
Matter
The Periodic Table
Moles
Coulomb’s Law
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Configuration Rules
Predicting Ionic Charges
Periodic Trends
Chapter 3 Questions
Chapter 3 Answers and Explanations
4 Big Idea #2: Bonding and Phases
Bonds Overview
Ionic Bonds
Metallic Bonds
Covalent Bonds
Lewis Dot Structures
Polarity
Intermolecular Forces
Vapor Pressure
Solution Separation
Kinetic Molecular Theory
Maxwell-Boltzmann Diagrams
Effusion
The Ideal Gas Equation
Dalton’s Law
Deviations from Ideal Behavior
Density
Chapter 4 Questions

Chapter 4 Answers and Explanations
5 Big Idea #3: Chemical Reactions, Energy Changes, and Redox
Reactions
Types of Reactions
Chemical Equations
Gravimetric Analysis
Enthalpy
Energy Diagrams
Catalysts and Energy Diagrams
Oxidation States
Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Galvanic Cells
Electrolytic Cells
Chapter 5 Questions
Chapter 5 Answers and Explanations
6 Big Idea #4: Chemical Reactions and Their Rates
Rate Law Using Initial Concentrations
Rate Law Using Concentration and Time
Collision Theory
Beer’s Law
Reaction Mechanisms
Catalysts
Chapter 6 Questions
Chapter 6 Answers and Explanations
7 Big Idea #5: Laws of Thermodynamics and Changes in Matter
Heat and Temperature
State Functions
Enthalpy of Formation, ΔHºf

Bond Energy
Hess’s Law
Enthalpy of Solution
Thermodynamics of Phase Change
Calorimetry
Heating Curves
Entropy
Gibbs Free Energy
Free Energy Change, ΔG
ΔG, ΔH, and ΔS
Voltage and Favorability
Chapter 7 Questions
Chapter 7 Answers and Explanations
8 Big Idea #6: Equilibrium, Acids and Bases, Titrations, and
Solubility
The Equilibrium Constant, Keq
Le Châtelier’s Principle
Changes in the Equilibrium Constant
The Reaction Quotient, Q
Solubility
Acids and Bases Definitions
pH
Acid Strengths
Neutralization Reactions
Buffers
Indicators
Titration
Chapter 8 Questions
Chapter 8 Answers and Explanations

9 Laboratory Overview

Part VI: Practice Test 2
Practice Test 2: Answers and Explanations

Part VII: Additional Practice Tests
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 3: Answers and Explanations
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 4: Answers and Explanations


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