Bio/Chem (written test)

This year's Bio/Chem Tryout Test will cover three events: Chemistry Lab, Microbe Mission, and Material Science.

Part 1. CHEMISTRY LAB

Topics to Study (*Means heavier weighting on test):

• Stoichiometry*
• Gas Laws
  • Ideal Gas Law, Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, Gay-Lussac’s Law
  • Partial pressures, Systems of Equilibrium
• Acid-Base Reactions*
  • Strong/Weak Acids/Bases
  • Conjugate Acids/Bases
  • Reactions in acidic/basic solutions
• Electrochemistry
  • Gibb’s Free energy, entropy, heat of reaction
• Intensive/Extensive Properties **
• Thermodynamics**
  • Heat of formation, heat of reaction
  • Endo/exothermic reactions
  • Phase changes/diagrams

Breakdown of Questions:

• All FRQ (+1 Marathon Problem)

Part 2. MICROBE MISSION

Topics to Study:

• Microscopes
  • Types/parts
  • Uses/function
  • General information about magnification
• Microbe organelles
• Gram staining
• Growth curves
• Types of microbes
  • Differences
  • Identification
• Microbial diseases
  • Major plant diseases

Part 3. MATERIAL SCIENCE

Topics to Study

• Macro
  • Stress-strain, Young’s modulus, deformation: malleability
  • 4 main materials: ceramics, polymers, metals, composites
    • How to identify
    • Know general properties
    • Common archetypes of each
• Micro
  • Bond-types: covalent, metallic, etc.
  • molecular structures (ex: fcc, bcc,)