Study.com Chemistry 112L Help — Chemistry II with Lab

The sequel to Chemistry 101 — harder content, Labster fee, etc. FMMC handles all of it.

Study.com Chemistry 112L Help — Chemistry II with Lab

The lab-bearing sequel to Chemistry 101 — harder content, a separate Labster fee, and everything that comes with it. FMMC handles all of it.

Quick Answer

Chemistry 112L: Chemistry II with Lab (SDCM-0195) is a 4-credit, ACE-recommended Study.com course — 3 semester hours for the lecture content and 1 semester hour for the lab. It covers 12 content chapters plus 11 required virtual lab experiments completed through Labster, a separate platform with its own subscription fee not included in Study.com membership. Grading is 100 points from chapter tests and 200 points from the final exam. The Labster labs must be completed before credit is awarded.

Labster — What to Know Before You Enroll

Labster virtual lab access is not included in your Study.com membership. You must purchase a separate Labster subscription and complete 11 assigned virtual experiments before the lab credit hour applies. Budget for this additional cost before enrolling.

What Chemistry 112L Covers

Chemistry 112L is the second course in Study.com’s two-course general chemistry sequence. Where Chemistry 101 covers bonding, gas laws, and stoichiometry, Chemistry 112L continues with kinetics, equilibrium, and electrochemistry — then extends through atmospheric, nuclear, and organic chemistry. It transfers for 4 semester hours of lower-division credit at over 2,000 colleges.

Chapter 1 is different from all other Study.com chapters — it is not a content chapter with a chapter test. It contains the Labster virtual lab assignments. Students must complete these 11 labs alongside the content chapters to unlock full credit. The remaining 12 chapters each end with a 15-question chapter test: open-book, up to 3 attempts, highest score counts.

Chapter Topics Difficulty
Ch 1: Labster Labs 11 virtual lab experiments — separate Labster subscription required See note
Ch 2: Chemical Reaction Kinetics Reaction rates, rate laws, reaction orders, half-life, Arrhenius equation High
Ch 3: Equilibrium Equilibrium constants (Kc, Kp), ICE tables, Le Chatelier’s principle High
Ch 4: Acids, Bases & pH Strong and weak acids/bases, pH and pOH, neutralization, buffers Medium
Ch 5: Acid-Base Equilibrium Ka and Kb calculations, buffer design, titration curves, Henderson-Hasselbalch High
Ch 6: Solubility Equilibrium Solubility product (Kₛₚ), common ion effect, molar solubility calculations Medium
Ch 7: Entropy & Thermodynamics Enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, spontaneity, Hess’s law Medium
Ch 8: Electrochemistry Oxidation-reduction, cell voltage, standard reduction potentials, Nernst equation High
Ch 9: Atmospheric Chemistry Atmospheric composition, ozone chemistry, greenhouse gases, pollution Low
Ch 10: Metals & Nonmetals Properties of metals and nonmetals, industrial and biological applications Low
Ch 11: Coordination Compounds Transition metal complexes, ligand types, naming, coordination number Medium
Ch 12: Nuclear Chemistry Radioactive decay types, half-life calculations, radiometric dating, applications Medium
Ch 13: Organic Chemistry Hydrocarbons, functional groups, naming, properties of major organic compound classes Medium


Bar chart showing difficulty level of each content chapter in Study.com Chemistry 112L, with Chapters 2, 3, 5, and 8 rated High

Where Students Get Stuck

Chemistry 112L picks up where Chemistry 101 leaves off — it assumes fluency in stoichiometry, equilibrium basics, and acid-base concepts before Chapter 2. Students who struggled with the harder Chemistry 101 chapters and still passed will find those gaps exposed immediately.

Chapter 2 (Chemical Reaction Kinetics) introduces rate laws, which require determining reaction order from experimental data — not from a formula, but by analyzing how rate changes when concentration changes. Students who approach this as a straightforward calculation exercise without understanding what the data is telling them consistently burn chapter test attempts.

Chapter 3 (Equilibrium) is where ICE tables become the central tool. Students who can write an equilibrium expression (K = products/reactants) often still cannot set up an ICE table correctly under test conditions — particularly when the problem involves small K values that require approximations, or when the equilibrium involves a gas-phase reaction with different units. The chapter test rewards procedural fluency, not conceptual understanding alone.

Chapter 5 (Acid-Base Equilibrium) layers a second judgment call on top of ICE table work: before students can even begin an equilibrium calculation, they need to correctly identify whether the acid or base in the problem is strong or weak. Strong acids and bases are solved differently — no ICE table needed — while weak ones require Ka or Kb setup. Students who mix up these paths, or who enter Chapter 5 without a reliable ICE table procedure from Chapter 3, fail the chapter test on the first attempt at a high rate. This is particularly common among students who have been away from quantitative chemistry for a semester or more — the algebra-chemistry fluency that Chapter 5 demands does not come back quickly from reading alone. FMMC’s chemistry help service covers both chapters specifically.

Chapter 8 (Electrochemistry) is the last high-difficulty chapter and the one that most often determines the final exam outcome. Cell voltage calculations require identifying oxidation and reduction half-reactions, applying standard reduction potentials correctly, and using the Nernst equation for non-standard conditions. Sign errors in reduction potential problems are the most common point-loss mechanism on the final.

The grading math: four High-difficulty chapters out of twelve. Score 55% on those four and 90% on the remaining eight — your chapter test average is 78 out of 100, and you need 132 out of 200 on the final to pass. That is 66% on a 50-question cumulative exam. Possible — but the Labster labs must also be completed, adding a separate completion requirement before credit applies.

How FMMC Helps with Chemistry 112L

Chemistry is one of FMMC’s core subjects. We support students through Chemistry 112L on Study.com as well as equivalent courses through our chemistry help service — including institutional general chemistry II courses on platforms like WebAssign and MyLab Chemistry.

Chapter Test Support

Expert guidance through Chapters 2, 3, 5, and 8 — kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base equilibrium, and electrochemistry — before using your attempts.

Final Exam Preparation

Targeted review of the four high-difficulty chapters plus ICE table and electrochemistry problem types that appear most heavily on the final.

Full Course Completion

FMMC handles all 12 content chapter tests and final exam prep. Most students finish within one billing cycle even accounting for the Labster lab component.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly does the Labster requirement involve?

Labster is a virtual lab simulation platform. Study.com Chemistry 112L requires completing 11 specific Labster experiments tied to the course content. Labster access requires a separate subscription purchased directly from Labster — the cost is not included in your Study.com membership. The specific labs required are listed in the Chemistry 112L course syllabus inside Study.com. The credit recommendation for the 1 lab credit hour does not apply until all labs are completed.

Do I need to complete Chemistry 101 first?

Study.com lists no formal prerequisites. However, Chemistry 112L builds directly on Chemistry 101 — particularly stoichiometry, gas laws, bonding, and introductory equilibrium. Students without that foundation will find Chapters 2 through 5 extremely difficult.

How many credits does Chemistry 112L transfer for?

Chemistry 112L carries an ACE recommendation for 4 total semester hours — 3 hours for the lecture content and 1 hour for the lab component. The lab credit only applies if the Labster experiments are completed. Many nursing, allied health, and pre-med programs require a lab-bearing general chemistry course, and Chemistry 112L is designed to satisfy that requirement. Confirm with your advisor that this specific course transfers as the lab credit your program requires before enrolling.

Do I need to complete all 12 content chapters before taking the final?

Yes. All chapter tests for the 12 content chapters (Chapters 2-13) must be passed before the final exam unlocks. The Labster labs must also be completed before credit applies. Chapter test scores are locked in permanently before the final opens.

Which chapters are hardest on the Chemistry 112L final?

The four High-difficulty chapters — Kinetics (Ch 2), Equilibrium (Ch 3), Acid-Base Equilibrium (Ch 5), and Electrochemistry (Ch 8) — generate the most calculation-heavy questions on the final. Equilibrium and acid-base equilibrium questions often require ICE table setup, which appears in multiple question forms. Electrochemistry questions involving the Nernst equation and cell voltage calculations are commonly missed due to sign errors and incorrect half-reaction identification.

Can I use a calculator and periodic table on the final exam?

Yes. The final exam is open-book and open-note with no proctoring software. Students can use a calculator, periodic table, standard reduction potential tables, and course materials. For Chemistry 112L specifically, having a reduction potential reference and ICE table setup ready matters more than memorizing formulas — the challenge is applying them correctly, not recalling them.

I already failed one final exam attempt. Can FMMC still help?

Yes, as long as you have attempts remaining. You have three total with a 3-day wait between each. Contact FMMC immediately after a failed attempt — the 3-day window is enough time to diagnose which chapters cost the most points and target those specifically. In Chemistry 112L, a failed attempt is most often caused by ICE table errors in equilibrium questions or sign errors in electrochemistry — both are fixable with focused review.

Does FMMC help with other Study.com science courses?

Yes. See the Study.com Help hub for all supported courses, including Chemistry 101, Physics 101, Statistics 101, and more.

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