Welcome to Chemistry

This course is a systematic treatment of chemical principles and their applications. Concepts to be covered include: the nature of scientific knowledge, inquiry and enterprise, scientific measurement and the Metric System, matter and energy, atomic structure & electron configurations, periodic table, the mole concept, chemical reactions and equations, stoichiometry, phases of matter, behavior of gases and gas laws, solutions, reaction rates and equilibrium, and acids, bases and salts. Detailed descriptions of each of these topics and course policies and expectations are contained in the course syllabus linked below. Each of the units has a separate page on this site complete with links to content notes and assignments.