0.1 Introduction
- Welcome
- What is the purpose of this Introductory Series?
- About the Instructor
- Learning Objectives
0.2 Practice with Scientific Notation
- IMPORTANT TO DO THIS LITTLE LESSON FIRST!
- This lesson shows you how to write Scientific Notation correctly for this tutorial.
Unit 1: Fundamentals, Measurements, Significant Figures, and Unit Conversion Math
1.1 Science and Chemistry Definitions
- YouTube Video: 01 So You Want to Learn Some Chemistry?
- What is Science?
- What is Chemistry?
- Science is something we do!
- How do we get the most from these chemistry videos?
1.2 A Chemistry House
- YouTube Video: 02 A Chemistry House – How the Chemistry Topics are Organized
- Building a Chemistry Structure of Knowledge
- Describes the approaches to teaching chemistry
- Shows the structure of knowledge used to teach chemistry
- Describes how the knowledge is integrated
1.3 The Scientific Method
- YouTube Video: 03 The Scientific Method
- Steps in the scientific method
- Key terms defined: hypothesis, empirical evidence, scientific theory, scientific fact or law, systematic and random error, qualitative and quantitative analysis
1.4 Measurements and Base Units
- YouTube Video: 04 Measurements and Base Units
- What is a measurement?
- Describes two system of units: US Customary and SI systems
- Expansion of the base units to the creation of derived units such as volume
1.5 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth I
- YouTube Video: 05 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth I
- Describes the differences between systematic and random error in a measurement.
- Describes the differences between accuracy and precision in a measurement.
- Outlines the factors that should be considered in picking an appropriate method of measurement.
1.6 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth II
06 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth II
- YouTube Video: 06 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth II
- Continuation of the description of the Measurement Process
- Sampling and homogeneous/heterogeneous mixtures
- Processing a sample and eliminating interference
- Calibration of a measurement
1.7 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth III
This lecture describes the last step in the measurement process and the following:
- YouTube Video: 07 Measurement Process, Significant Figures, and the Search for Truth III
- Random error defined
- Guessing the last digit using our instrument
- Meniscus
- Calculating an Average and Standard Deviation
- Absolute Error
- Significant Figures
1.7 Mastery Problems: Average and Standard Deviation
Mastery Problems: Practice computing average and standard deviation for a set of data
1.8 Significant Figure Math I
In this lecture we begin looking at sig fig math.
- YouTube Video: 08 Significant Figure Math I – Counting Sig Figs, Scientific Notation, Exact Numbers
- How to count the number of sig figs in a measurement
- How to put values in scientific notation
- Exact values
- Measurements where we vary the number of sig figs.
1.8 Mastery Problems: Significant Figure Math I
Mastery Problems: Writing Scientific Notation and Counting Significant Figures
1.9 Significant Figure Math II
Describes how to preserve significant figures in basic computations.
- YouTube Video: 09 Significant Figure Math II – Add/Subtract and Multiplication/Division Sig Fig Math
- Significant Figures in addition/subtraction and multiplication/division computations
- Round off rules
- Mixed Computations
1.9 Mastery Problems: Significant Figure Math II
Mastery Problems: Basic Math with Significant Figures
1.10 Significant Figure Math III
The final lecture on how to preserve significant figures in Math
- YouTube Video: 10 Significant Figure Math III – Exponent and Log/Antilog Math
- Significant figures in math involving numbers with exponents
- Significant figures in math involving logarithmic and antilogarithmic numbers
1.10 Mastery Problems: Significant Figure Math III
Mastery Problems: Sig Fig Math with Powers and Exponents and Sig Fig with Logs and Antilogs
1.11 Building Solution Maps with Dimensional Analysis and Factorization
This lecture presents a problem-solving strategy that can be used in chemistry.
- YouTube Video: 11 Building Solution Maps with Dimensional Analysis and Factorization
- Steps in a problem-solving strategy
- Building solution maps and computations using dimensional analysis and factorization
1.12 Basic Unit Conversion Math
This lecture describes basic unit conversion math.
- YouTube Video: 12 Basic Unit Conversion Math
- Tables of SI and US Customary Unit Relationships
- Single Step and Multi-Step Unit Conversion Factors
YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD THIS TABLE! We will use this Unit Conversion Table for the rest of the course.
1.12 Mastery Problems: Basic Unit Conversions
Mastery Problems: Basic Unit Conversions