SLE133- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: Deakin University
• Department: Science, Engineering and Built Environment
• Course: SLE133
• Professor: Xavier Conlan

Document Summary

Chemistry: the study of the nature, properties and transformations of matter. Matter: anything that has mass and occupies space. Therefore, things you can see, touch, taste or smell. Scientific method: the process of observation, hypothesis and experimentation used to expand a body of knowledge. Property: a characteristic useful for identifying a substance or object (size, colour, temp, chemical composition and reactivity) Physical change: change that does not affect the chemical makeup of a substance or object. Chemical change: change in the chemical makeup of a substance. Solid: a substance that has a defined shape and volume. Liquid: a substance that has a definite volume but assumes the shape of its container. Gas: a substance that has neither a definite volume nor a definite shape. Many substances can exist in all 3 phases, and participate in changes of state. Pure substance: a substance that has a uniform chemical composition throughout.