- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Atoms
- 2 The periodic table
- 3 Electronic configurations revisited
- 4 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 1
- 1 From elements to compounds
- 2 Molecular and empirical formulas
- 3 Another look at the language of chemistry
- 4 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 2
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Fundamental ideas behind the chemical bond
- 2 Lewis structures – a starting point
- 3 Electronegativity
- 4 Bonding in metals
- 5 Cataloguing chemical substances
- 6 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 3
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 More about chemical bonding
- 2 Resonance Structures
- 3 When Lewis structures don’t work
- 4 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 4
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Chemical reactions
- 2 Chemical equations
- 3 Gunpowder – the explosive reaction of charcoal, sulfur and potassium nitrate
- 4 Chemical equations involving ions
- 5 Reactivity of molecules
- 6 The reaction of alcohols with nitric acid – more explosives
- 7 A closer look at functional groups
- 8 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 5
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Molecular shape affects molecular reactivity
- 2 Steric effects in enzymes
- 3 The shapes of some molecules
- 4 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 6
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Units of measurement
- 2 Weighing and measuring volume in the laboratory
- 3 Introducing the mole
- 4 How small is an atom?
- 5 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 7
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Petrol engine emissions
- 2 Chemical equilibrium
- 3 Catalysts in action
- 4 Equilibrium positions and rates of reaction – an overview
- 5 This session’s quiz
- Summary of session 8
- Tell us what you think
- Acknowledgements
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