1. INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY
Unit 1

2. CHEMISTRY the study of the composition of matter types of chemistry
Biochemistry
Organic
Inorganic
Physical
Analytical

3. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
logical approach to the solution of scientific procedures:
Observation
Hypothesis
Experiment
Theory

4. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
logical approach to the solution of scientific procedures:
Observation – use senses to obtain information directly
Hypothesis – educated guess as to what you have observed

5. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
logical approach to the solution of scientific procedures:
Experiment – the means to test a hypothesis
Theory – broad and extensively tested explanation of WHY expts give certain results

6. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Observation
Hypothesis
Experiments
THEORY

7. THEORIES can never be proven may be disproved by another experiment
can predict the behavior of a natural system

8. SCIENTIFIC LAWS
concise statements that summarize the results of many observations and experiments
explain WHAT not why
can be expressed as mathematical relationships