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Meet the Instructor: Dhruv Girish

Biography: Dhruv Girish is a student at Urbana High School, and is a strong proponent of Medical Feild, working with industry professionals and professors to work on new and innovative research in the fields of Immunology and Biomedical Sciences. Dhruv has been featured on ABC, and has won awards with the Point of Lights, Prudential Volunteer Award, IMPACT Award, etc.  He is a big supporter of Urbana STEMM a local program where he mentors his peers.

Class One: Introduction to Chemistry

Basics of Chemistry and Real World Applications, Lab Materials and Classification, Level of Uncertainty, Significant Figures, Calculating with Significant Figures, Density, Scientific Graphing, Metric System

Class Two/THREE: Atomic Theory/Nuclear Chemistry

​Atomic Structure, Isotope Notation, Radioactivity, Radioactive Decay Equations (Alpha and Beta Decay), Radioactive Half-Life, Average Atomic Mass  0opo

Class Three/Four: Electrons and the Periodic Table
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​Electrons, Electron configurations, Wave Particle Duality, Rules for Electron configurations (Aufbau Principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Hund's Rule), Periodic table, Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids, Bohr Model, Famous Families on the Periodic Table, Lewis Dot Diagram

Class Five/Six: Chemical Bonding and WateR
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​Naming Acids and Bases, Covalent Bondings, Naming Covalent (Molecular) Compounds, Chemical Bondings, Properties of Ionic Compounds, Empirical Formula, Crossover Method, Naming Ionic Compounds, Lewis Dot Diagrams for ionic compounds, Comparing properties of Metallic/ Molecular/ Ionic Compounds, Properties of Water,  Lewis Structure for Covalent Compounds, Naming Bases, Naming Hydrates, Molecular Geometry, Metallic Bonds, Polarity of Covalent compounds

CLASS Six/Seven: ​Chemical Reactions
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Balancing Equations, Chemical Reactions, Counting Atoms in equations, Words to formula equation, Solubility Rules, Double Replacements, Activity Series, Reaction Rates, Reaction Types, Predicting products, State (phase) symbols in chemical reactions, Reaction Coordinate diagrams

Class Eight/Nine:  Acids/Bases/Equilibrium

​Arrhenius Acids and Base, Bronsted-Lowry Acid, Naming Acids, Buffered Solutions, Le Chatelier Principle, Salts. Titration, pH, Properties of Acids and Bases

Class Seven/Eight: ​The Mole and Stoichiometry

Particles to  moles problems, mass to particles problems, Stoichiometry, mole-mole problems, mass-mass problems, limiting reactants, Percent Yield, Empirical Formula, Molecular Formula, Percent Composition, The Mole, Mole Conversions, mole to particles problems, particles to mass problems9i,

Class Ten: Final Review Day
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