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States of Matter: Gases, Liquids, and Solids

Learning Goals

1. Describe the behavior of gases expressed by the gas laws: Boyle's law, Charles's law, combined gas law, Avogadro's law, the ideal gas law, and Dalton's law.

2. Use gas law equations to calculate conditions and changes in conditions of gases.

3. Describe the major points of the kinetic molecular theory of gases.

4. Explain the relationship between the kinetic molecular theory and the physical properties of macroscopic quantities of gases.

5. Describe properties of the liquid state in terms of the properties of the individual molecules that comprise the liquid.

6. Describe the processes of melting, boiling, evaporation, and condensation.

7. Describe the dipolar attractions known collectively as van der Waals forces.

8. Describe hydrogen bonding and its relationship to boiling and melting temperatures.

9. Relate the properties of the various classes of solids (ionic, covalent, molecular, and metallic) to the structure of these solids.










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