Recommended to: Students of grades 7 and up who want to understand Chemistry, who take Chemistry concurrently at school or will take Chemistry at school the following year. Also, for students who takes Biology BEFORE Chemistry at school.
Prerequisite: Algebra I.
Outline: The Chemistry course will emphasis fundamental concepts and will include rigorous problem solving. Special attention will be paid to the detailed study of the atomic structure and explanation of the element and compound properties by the elements' position in the Periodic Table. Systematic and sequential overview of organic compounds is designed to serve as a base for understanding biochemical portion of Biology.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Definition of Chemistry. Forms and phases of matter. Chemical and physical properties of matter, chemical reactions. Measurements in chemistry, units of measurement. Atomic mass, mole, stoichiometry.
- Chemical equations, coefficients, equilibrium.
- Solutions and their properties. Concentrations. Problems solving.
- Gases, ideal gas law, reactions in gases, problems.
- Phase transformations, simple phase diagrams.
- Atoms and Periodic Table. Atomic radii and weights. Periodic Table. Arrangement of element, periods and columns. Types of elements in Periodic Table. Atomic structure and models of atomic structure, parts of atom. Electronic structure of atoms in periods and columns. Notation of electronic state of atoms and ions. Isotopes. Spontaneous radioactivity.
- Chemical bonding. Valence, electro-negativity. Types of chemical bonding, ions, molecules. Molecular attraction.
- Chemical formulas, chemical equations, problems using chemical equations.
- Descriptive chemistry of groups and periods in Periodic Table: Metals, non-metals, halogens, noble gases, transitional elements. Reactions between elements in different groups.
- Acid-Base theory. Oxidation-reduction reactions. Electrochemistry.
- Introduction to Organic chemistry. Organic compounds. Carbon atom, properties, bonding. Structural formulas. Saturated and unsaturated compounds. Homologous series, their properties and reactions, occurrence in nature: hydrocarbons, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic ring hydrocarbons, alcohols, organic acids, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, polymers.
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