AP Chemistry 
Course Outline
Structure of Matter
- Atomic theory and atomic structure
- Evidence for the atomic theory
- Atomic masses; determination by chemical and physical means
- Atomic number and mass number; isotopes
- Electron energy levels: atomic spectra, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals
- Periodic relationships including, for example, atomic radii, ionization energies, electron affinities, oxidation states
- Chemical bonding
- Binding forces
- Types: ionic, covalent, metallic, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals (including London dispersion forces)
- Relationships to states, structure, and properties of matter
- Polarity of bonds, electronegativities
- Molecular models
- Lewis structures
- Valence bond: hybridization of orbitals, resonance, sigma and pi bonds
- VSEPR
- Geometry of molecules and ions, structural isomerism of simple organic molecules and coordination complexes; dipole moments of molecules; relation of properties to structure
- Nuclear chemistry: nuclear equations, half-lives, and radioactivity;
chemical applications
- Binding forces
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