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Concept
General chemistry
Summary
General chemistry (sometimes referred to as "gen chem") is offered by colleges and universities as an introductory level chemistry course usually taken by students during their first year. The course is usually run with a concurrent lab section that gives students an opportunity to experience a laboratory environment and carry out experiments with the material learned in the course. These labs can consist of acid-base titrations, kinetics, equilibrium reactions, and electrochemical reactions. Chemistry majors as well as students across STEM majors such as biology, biochemistry, biomedicine, physics, and engineering are usually required to complete one year of general chemistry as well.
The concepts taught in a typical general chemistry course are as follows:
Stoichiometry
Conservation of energy
Conservation of mass
Elementary atomic theory
Periodic table and periodicity
Law of constant composition
Gas laws
Nuclear chemistry
Solubility
Acid-base chemistry
Chemical bonding
Chemical kinetics
Thermodynamics
Electrochemistry
Chemical equilibria
Students in colleges and universities looking to follow the "pre-medical" track are required to pass general chemistry as the Association of American Medical Colleges requires at least one full year of chemistry. In order for students to apply to medical school, they must pass the medical college admission test, or MCAT, which consists of a section covering the foundations of general chemistry. General chemistry covers many of the principal foundations that apply to medicine and the human body that is essential in our current understanding and practice of medicine.
Acids and bases
Atomic structure
Bonding and chemical interactions
Chemical kinetics
Electrochemistry
Equilibrium
Solutions
Stoichiometry
The gas phase
Thermochemistry
Redox reactions
Students who are enrolled in general chemistry often desire to become doctors, researchers, and educators. Because of the demands of these fields, professors believe that the level of rigor that is associated with general chemistry should be elevated from that of a typical introductory course.
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