AP Chemistry: Comprehensive Course Outline

This foundational unit introduces the basic building blocks of matter. You'll explore atomic structure, electron configurations, and periodic trends while learning how chemists count and track atoms through moles and calculations of elemental composition.

This unit explores how atoms bond together to form molecules and compounds. You'll learn about different types of chemical bonds, intermolecular forces, and how molecular geometry influences chemical and physical properties.

This unit focuses on the forces between molecules and how they influence physical properties. You'll study states of matter, gas laws, solutions, and how electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter.

This unit examines how substances transform through chemical reactions. You'll learn to write and balance chemical equations, predict products, perform stoichiometric calculations, and classify reaction types.

This unit explores the rates of chemical reactions and factors that affect them. You'll study reaction mechanisms, rate laws, activation energy, and how catalysts enhance reaction rates.

This unit focuses on energy changes during chemical reactions. You'll study heat transfer, calorimetry, enthalpy, and methods for calculating energy changes in chemical processes.

This unit explores chemical equilibrium, where forward and reverse reactions occur at equal rates. You'll study equilibrium constants, Le Châtelier's Principle, and applications to solubility equilibria.

This unit explores acid-base chemistry in depth. You'll study different acid-base models, pH calculations, buffer systems, and titrations to analyze and predict behavior of acidic and basic solutions.

This culminating unit connects thermodynamics to equilibrium and electrochemistry. You'll explore entropy, Gibbs free energy, electrochemical cells, and how energy changes drive chemical and physical processes.