Unit 1: Chemical fundamentals: structure, properties and reactions Chemistry
Chemists design and produce a vast range of materials for many purposes, including for fuels, cosmetics, building materials and pharmaceuticals. As the science of chemistry has developed over time, there has been an increasing realisation that the properties …
Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH006
Select, construct and use appropriate representations including chemical symbols and formulae, molecular structural formulae, physical and graphical models of structures, chemical equations and thermochemical equations, to communicate conceptual understanding, …
ACSCH006 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH020
The properties of atoms, including their ability to form chemical bonds, are explained by the arrangement of electrons in the atom and in particular by the stability of the valence electron shell
ACSCH020 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH035
Carbon forms hydrocarbon compounds, including alkanes and alkenes, with different chemical properties that are influenced by the nature of the bonding within the molecules
ACSCH035 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH022
Isotopes of an element have the same electron configuration and possess similar chemical properties but have different physical properties, including variations in nuclear stability
ACSCH022 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH029
Chemical bonds are caused by electrostatic attractions that arise because of the sharing or transfer of electrons between participating atoms; the valency is a measure of the number of bonds that an atom can form
ACSCH029 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH036
All chemical reactions involve the creation of new substances and associated energy transformations, commonly observable as changes in the temperature of the surroundings and/or the emission of light
ACSCH036 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSCH039
A mole is a precisely defined quantity of matter equal to Avogadro’s number of particles; the mole concept and the Law of Conservation of Mass can be used to calculate the mass of reactants and products in a chemical reaction
ACSCH039 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum