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Listening Length: 30 hours and 6 minutes

Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught over 60 visually innovative half-hour lectures that are suitable for the chemist in all of us, no matter what our background. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Employing simple concepts, logical reasoning, and vivid graphics that illuminate the wonders of chemistry, these lectures make essential concepts crystal clear. Best of all, this highly interactive approach features extensive hands-on, dramatic demonstrations, from which you will gain extraordinary insight into how the universe works.

Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University. With passion and humor, Professor Davis guides you through the fascinating world of atoms, molecules, and their ceaseless interactions, showing you how to think, analyze problems, and predict outcomes like a true expert in the field.

Chemistry and Our Universe Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Professor Biography

Course Scope

LECTURE GUIDES

LECTURE 1

Is Chemistry the Science of Everything?

LECTURE 2

Matter and Measurement

LECTURE 3

Wave Nature of Light

LECTURE 4

Particle Nature of Light

LECTURE 5

Basic Structure of the Atom

LECTURE 6

Electronic Structure of the Atom

LECTURE 7

Periodic Trends: Navigating the Table

LECTURE 8

Compounds and Chemical Formulas

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LECTURE 9

Joining Atoms: The Chemical Bond

LECTURE 10

Mapping Molecules: Lewis Structures

LECTURE 11

VSEPR Theory and Molecular Geometry

LECTURE 12

Hybridization of Orbitals

LECTURE 13

Molecular Orbital Theory

LECTURE 14

Communicating Chemical Reactions

LECTURE 15

Chemical Accounting: Stoichiometry

LECTURE 16

Enthalpy and Calorimetry

LECTURE 17

Hess’s Law and Heats of Formation

LECTURE 18

Entropy: The Role of Randomness

LECTURE 19

Influence of Free Energy

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LECTURE 20

Intermolecular Forces

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LECTURE 21

Phase Changes in Matter .

LECTURE 22

Behavior of Gases: Gas Laws

LECTURE 23

Kinetic Molecular Theory

LECTURE 24

Liquids and Their Properties

LECTURE 25

Metals and Ionic Solids .

LECTURE 26

Covalent Solids

LECTURE 27

Mixing It Up: Solutions

LECTURE 28

Solubility and Saturation

LECTURE 29

Colligative Properties of Solutions

LECTURE 30

Modeling Reaction Rates

LECTURE 31

Temperature and Reaction Rates

LECTURE 32

Reaction Mechanisms and Catalysis

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LECTURE 33

The Back and Forth of Equilibrium

LECTURE 34

Manipulating Chemical Equilibrium

LECTURE 35

Acids, Bases, and the pH Scale

LECTURE 36

Weak Acids and Bases

LECTURE 37

Acid?Base Reactions and Buffers

LECTURE 38

Polyprotic Acids

LECTURE 39

Structural Basis for Acidity

LECTURE 40

Electron Exchange: Redox Reactions

LECTURE 41

Electromotive Force and Free Energy

LECTURE 42

Storing Electrical Potential: Batteries

LECTURE 43

Nuclear

and Radiation

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LECTURE 44

Binding Energy and the Mass Defect

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LECTURE 45

Breaking Things Down: Nuclear Fission

LECTURE 46

Building Things Up: Nuclear Fusion

LECTURE 47

Introduction to Organic Chemistry

LECTURE 48

Heteroatoms and Functional Groups

LECTURE 49

Reactions in Organic Chemistry

LECTURE 50

Synthetic Polymers

LECTURE 51

Biological Polymers

LECTURE 52

Medicinal Chemistry

LECTURE 53

Poisons, Toxins, and Venoms

LECTURE 54

Chemical Weapons

LECTURE 55

Tapping Chemical Energy: Fuels

LECTURE 56

Unleashing Chemical Energy: Explosives

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LECTURE 57

Chemistry of the Earth

LECTURE 58

Chemistry of Our Oceans

LECTURE 59

Atmospheric Chemistry

LECTURE 60

Chemistry, Life, and the Cosmos

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

Bibliography

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