Arkansas State University Department of Chemistry and Physics

Students should know the following:

a) Periodic Table - groups and families, periods; classification of elements - metals/nonmetals/metalloids; Representative/Noble Gases/Transtition metals/Inner Transition metals

b) Matter and its transformations; phase changes; physical and chemical changes

c) Mixtures, homogeneous and heterogeneous; substances, elements and compounds

d) Atoms - protons, neutrons and electrons; isotopes

e) Molecules and compounds; allotropes; ionic and covalent compounds

f) Electrolytes - strong, weak and non-electrolytes in aqueous solution; reversible reactions

g) Nomenclature - covalent and ionic compounds, acids and their salts