CHEM 1729 - Solve It!

(PBS-AS, PHS-AS)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Students should contact their college for the most up-to-date information regarding if and how credits for this course will count toward graduation and/or be considered regarding academic standing.

S. Lee.

Solve It! will teach the skill of solving cognitively challenging general chemistry questions, such as students receive in CHEM 2070. Students will explore Polya’s method of problem solving while solving problems on unit conversions, combustion analysis, limiting reactants, isotopes, the Bohr model, periodic trends, 3-D Lewis structures, atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals, ideal gases, and the kinetic theory of gases. In addition, students will learn fundametal arithmetic and mathematical skills.