AP Chemistry is an intensive laboratory-oriented, senior class designed to be the equivalent of a first year, general college chemistry course. Lectures, class discussions, extensive homework assignments, and traditional chemical laboratories are utilized. Concepts from Honors Chemistry and Honors Physics will be used as foundations, and are reinforced and expanded upon in this class. Students are expected to complete multiple step, advanced algebraic problems outside the classroom. A strong emphasis will be placed on investigating chemical concepts both safely and accurately in laboratories. In-depth, written laboratory reports are required which incorporate a preliminary lab assignment, recording of data properly, calculations involving that data, interpreting the information to form conclusions, and error analysis. Students will be required to take the AP Exam or take a final exam at the end of the school year.  Students will be responsible for the cost of the AP Exam.
 
Topics covered in class will include: Gas Laws, Solution Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Equilibrium, Kinetics, Oxidation Reduction, Acid Base Theories, Quantum Mechanics, and Introduction to Organic and Nuclear Chemistry.