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1. Observable properties of acids and bases
2. Early acid base theories: Lavoisier and Davy
3. Svante Arrhenius' theory of acids and bases
4. Johannes Brønsted and Thomas Lowry: broadening the concept of acids and bases
5. pH and how to calculate it
6. pOH and how to calculate it
7. Fifteen conversions between pH, pOH, [H₃O⁺], and [OH¯]
8. A warning about pH (and pOH) and sigificant figures
9. A warning about putting numbers into the calculator
10. Strong and weak acids & bases: definitions and descriptions
11. K_w: The behavior of water and the relationship between pH and pOH
12. The pH of a strong acid or base
13. A trick pH question
14. Intro to K_a: the acid ionization constant
15. Intro to K_b: the base ionization constant
16. The five percent rule
17. K_aK_b = K_w
18. What are salts?
19. The chemical behavior of salts in water (hydrolysis)
    • A brief introduction to hydrolysis calculations
    • Calculations involving salts of weak acids (10)
    • Calculations involving salts of weak bases (10)
    • Calculation involving the salt of a weak acid and a weak base
20. Introduction to buffers
    • Buffers: the Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation
    • Fifteen examples of buffer calculations (10) (10) (10) (10)
21. The Lewis Definition of Acids and Bases
22. Titrating strong acids and bases: calculating volumes or molarities (10) (10)
23. Titrating strong acids and bases: calculating masses (10) (15)
24. Titrating weak acids and bases with strong acids and bases (15)
25. What pH results when some strong acid and strong base solutions are mixed? (10) (15)
26. What pH results when two solutions of differing pH values are mixed?
27. What pH results from dissolving an oxide in water?
28. Calculating the pH of sulfuric acid is a special case

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