Chemistry 1P: Preparation for General Chemistry
Chemistry 1P: Preparation for General Chemistry (Winter 2013, UC Irvine). Instructor: Professor Eric Potma. This class prepares students for the Chemistry 1ABC sequence. Chemistry 1P is meant for students who have not taken a high school chemistry course. Topics covered may include: Units of measurement, dimensional analysis, significant figures; elementary concepts of volume, mass, force, pressure, energy, density, temperature, heat, work; fundamentals of atomic and molecular structure; the mole concept; stoichiometry; properties of the states of matter; gas laws; solutions, concentrations.
| Lecture 04 - Accuracy and Dimensional Analysis |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Accuracy and Dimensional Analysis |
| [00:01:11] | 2. Significance in Measurements |
| [00:01:58] | 3. Significance in Measurements - Precision and Accuracy |
| [00:03:21] | 4. Significance in Measurements - How Accurate is a Measurement? |
| [00:04:50] | 5. Tools: Significant Figures: Numbers that Matter |
| [00:08:12] | 6. Significant Figures: Mathematical operations |
| [00:12:34] | 7. Significant Figures: Rounding |
| [00:13:25] | 8. Significant Figures: Rounding Example |
| [00:15:45] | 9. Significant Figures: Examples |
| [00:19:47] | 10. Tools: Dimensional Analysis |
| [00:24:00] | 11. Length |
| [00:28:04] | 12. Volume |
| [00:29:10] | 13. Mass |
| [00:30:27] | 14. Example- Centigrams to Pounds |
| [00:33:08] | 15. Example: Square Femtometers in Square Attometers |
| [00:37:24] | 16. Example: Cubic Kilometers in Microliters |
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