Ch. 1:  The Chemical World

After studying this chapter you should be able to:

• Define chemistry
• Name the steps of the scientific method and explain how scientists use the scientific method for problem solving and experimentation
• Explain the difference between a law and a theory
• Explain the five main branches of chemistry
• Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data
• Solve problems using the order of operations
• Rearrange an equation to solve for a variable
• Work with percentages
• Work with numbers in scientific notation