Chemistry

Course summary

From the moment you entered this world, Chemistry has been a big part of your life, from the food you eat, the medicine that cures you to the air that you breathe. Chemists have had an influence over all of us. Chemists understand how materials are made and work, and in this way can shape the world we live in. Lower Sixth: • Physical Chemistry: Including atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle. • Inorganic Chemistry: Including periodicity, Group 2 the alkaline earth metals and Group 7 the halogens. • Organic Chemistry: Including introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoal kanes, alkenes, alcohols and organic analysis.