Chemistry

Course summary

In Year 12 Physical chemistry—Including atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc. Inorganic chemistry Including periodicity, Group 2 , Group 7. Organic chemistry Including introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, organic analysis. In Year 13 Physical Chemistry -thermodynamics, rate equations, equilibrium constant (Kp) electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. Inorganic chemistry Including properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals, reactions of ions in aqueous solution. Organic chemistry Including optical omerism,aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, chromatography. Who is this course suitable for? Chemistry is a must if you are interested in any medical career. You should have an interest in the material world and have a good grasp of mathematics as this underpins much of the physical Chemistry that is studied. Many students take this in combination with Biology, Maths or Physics.