Chemistry

Course summary

In Year 12, the course includes the following topics of study, as well as practical experiments relating to: Inorganic chemistry topics: Including periodicity, the alkaline earth metals and halogens. Organic chemistry topics: Alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids. Physical chemistry topics: Atomic structure, amounts of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, oxidation, reduction and redox equations. This will then be developed in Year 13 into the study of the following topics, along with their related practical experiments, such as thermodynamics, rate equations, acids and bases, transition metals, alkanes, optical isomerism, aldehydes, ketones, and aromatic chemistry.