COURSE CONTENT 

UNIT I.                 Energy Matters               
This unit seeks to develop Knowledge and Understanding, Problem Solving and Practical Abilities in the context of reaction rates, enthalpy, patterns in the Periodic Table, bonding, structure and properties and the mole.

UNIT 2.                 The World of Carbon             
This unit seeks to develop Knowledge and Understanding, Problem Solving and Practical Abilities in the context of fuels, nomenclature and structural formulae, reactions of carbon compounds, uses of carbon compounds, polymers and natural products.

UNIT 3.                 Chemical Reactions               
This unit seeks to develop Knowledge and Understanding, Problem Solving and Practical Abilities in the context of the chemical industry, Hess’s law, equilibrium, acids and bases, redox reactions and nuclear chemistry.