AP Chemistry

AP09 Intermolecular Forces

 

dry ice
Weak intermolecular forces of carbon dioxide will allow its molecules to form a crystal lattice when the temperature is 197 K at 1 atm.

Art by Margaret A. Scrogin Chang

Chapter 11 Intermolecular Attractions

AP09 C11 Intermolecular Attractions
C11 Textbook Condensed

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, 1872.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."

In this chapter, you will learn that the sea can be boiling hot if the atmospheric pressure is low enough.

Frostbite Theater Returns!

Coulombic attracctions and and how ithey apply to polar molecules

Electrostatic charges and water

Microwave ovens water and liquid nitrogen.

Microwaves and Polar Molecules

Boil with a vacuum

Evaporation of water, an endothermic reaction, will lower the temperature to freeze water, an exothermic reaction

If the atmospheric pressure were low enough, the sea would be hot enough to boil and freeze at the same time.

Freezing water using a vacuum

This flash point demonstration done properly uses 2-propanol in a 5 gallon bottle. The alcohol is allowed to reach its equilibrium vapor pressure, and then is ignited in a carefully designed demonstration.

Vapor Pressure-Flash Point 1

The unnamed teacher in the second demonstration did not fare as well. But at least it wasn't a fuel-oil tank.

Vapor Pressure-Flash Point 2

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  • AP09.10 C11 Intermolecular Forces I
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Labs that should be completed by the end of November

  • APLab.30 Electrolytes
  • APLab.35 Metathesis Ppt Reactions