Tutorials and Problem Sets

Tutorials

  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. Sören Sörenson and the pH scale
  6. A warning about putting numbers into the calculator
  7. Strong and Weak Acids: Definitions and Descriptions
  8. Kw: The Behavior of Water and The Relationship Between pH and pOH
  9. The pH of a Strong Acid or Base
  10. Intro to Ka: The Acid Ionization Constant
  11. Intro to Kb: The Base Ionization Constant
  12. The Five Percent Rule
  13. KaKb = Kw
  14. What are Salts?
  15. The Hydrolysis of Salts in Water
  16. A Brief Introduction to Hydrolysis Calculations
  17. Introduction to Buffers
  18. Buffers: The Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation
  19. The Lewis Definition of Acids and Bases
  20. Examples of Lewis Acids
  21. Examples of Lewis Bases
  22. End Point: Titration Curves and Acid-Base Indicators

Problem Sets

Ka related

  1. Solving Ka Problems: Part One
  2. Solving Ka Problems: Part Two
  3. Solving Ka Problems: Part Three
  4. Given pH and Molarity, Calculate Ka
  5. Given pH and Other Concentration Data, Calculate Ka
  6. Given osmotic pressure data, calculate Ka and percent ionization

Kb related

  1. Solving Kb Problems: Part One
  2. Solving Kb Problems: Part Two
  3. Solving Kb Problems: Part Three
  4. Given pH and Molarity, Calculate Kb

Percent Dissociation related

  1. Given pH and Ka, Calculate the Percent Dissociation
  2. Given Concentration and Percent Dissociation, Calculate Ka
  3. Given Different Concentrations of an Acid, Calculate the Percent Dissociation of Each Concentration

Ksp related

  1. Given the Ksp, Calculate pH
  2. Given pH, Calculate Ksp
  3. What is the minimum pH required for precipitation?

Solutions of Salts

  1. Calculations Involving Salts of Weak Acids
  2. Calculations Involving Salts of Weak Bases
  3. Given the Ka of an Acid, Calculate the pH of a Solution of the Salt of that Acid
  4. Given the Kb of a Base, Calculate the pH of a Solution of the Salt of that Base

The Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation

  1. Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation problems

Miscellaneous Problems

  1. Miscellaneous problems