LIST OF CHEMISTRY LABELLED DIAGRAMS REQUIRED FOR HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Students are expected to draw and label these repeatedly, until they can memorise them:

  1. The behaviour of beams of protons, neutrons and electrons in an electric field.
  2. The shape of an s orbital.
  3. The shapes of px, py and pz orbitals.
  4. The dative covalent bond that leads to the formation of the aluminium chloride dimer.
  5. The shapes and bond angles in the carbon dioxide, water, boron trifluoride, ammonia, methane, phosphorus pentafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride molecules.
  6. Reaction-pathway diagrams for exothermic reactions.
  7. Reaction-pathway diagrams for endothermic reactions.
  8. The Born-Haber cycle for sodium chloride.
  9. Diagram to show the partition of a solute between two solvents.
  10. Boltzmann distribution for reactant particles, including the effect of raising the temperature of the reaction mixture.
  11. Energy profile diagram to compare an uncatalysed reaction to a catalysed one.
  12. Boltzmann distribution curve to compare an uncatalysed reaction to a catalysed one.
  13. Concentration-time graph for zero-order reactions.
  14. Concentration-time graph for first-order reactions, showing the meaning of the term half-life.
  15. Graph of atomic radius of the Period 3 elements sodium to chlorine.
  16. Graph of ionic radius of the Period 3 elements sodium to chlorine.
  17. Graph of first ionisation energy of the Period 3 elements sodium to argon.
  18. Diagram to show a pair of optical isomers.
  19. Diagrams to show the ease of hydrolysis of acyl chloride, alkyl chloride and aryl chloride.
  20. Diagram to show the repeat unit of poly(ethene).
  21. Diagram to show the repeat unit of PVC.
  22. Diagram to show the repeat unit of Terylene.
  23. Diagram to show the repeat unit of nylon 6.
  24. Diagram to show the repeat unit of nylon 6,6.
  25. Displayed formulae diagrams to show how we can ascend a homologous series.
  26. Displayed formulae diagrams to show how we can descend a homologous series.
  27. Displayed formulae diagrams to show important synthetic routes for aliphatic compounds.
  28. Displayed formulae diagrams to show important synthetic routes for aromatic compounds.
  29. Diagram to show a thin-layer chromatogram being used to identify the components in a mixture.
  30. Diagram to show how different protons in ethanol produce different peaks in the NMR spectrum.
  31. The shapes of dxy , dyz , dxz , dx2-y2 and dz2 orbitals.