Handbook

This course is an essential stepping stone to first-year chemistry classes at UOW. It is designed for students with little to no experience studying chemistry who wish to understand foundational chemical principles that are highly relevant to physical and biological processes. We begin our adventure into chemistry on a small scale, discussing atomic theory and properties of elements, before moving through reactivities of ions to form molecules that we recognise in our daily lives. We then discuss fundamental reactions, including the formation of solids and acid-base reactions, as well as the quantification of these reactions centred around the conservation of mass. Once we have discussed these core concepts in the lectures and practiced them in tutorial sessions, we will move into the laboratory and perform chemical experiments – carrying out, controlling, and analysing some of the reactions we’ve learned along the way!