CHEM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ionic Compound, Nernst Equation, Scientific Law
31 Aug 2019
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Scientific law : statement on repeated observations that describes phenomenon in. State a problem -> formulate hypothesis -> design experiment -> collect data -> analyze data -> draw conclusions. Hypothesis : a tentative explanation for a set of observations. Drawing a conclusion if the hypothesis was correct sometimes leads to the development of a theory : a unifying principle that explains a body of facts and/or those laws that are based on them. If the hypothesis was not correct, you go back and form a new one and restart the. Chemistry is the study of matter, it"s properties, and the changes that matter undergoes. Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space. Chemists classify matter as either a substance or a mixture of substances. Substance : matter that contains only one kind of particle. Substance is a form of matter that has constant, definite composition and characteristic properties and cannot be separated into components by physical means.
