Unit 7: Thermodynamics and Nuclear
Key Skills:
- Understand energy and its forms, including kinetic, potential, chemical, and thermal energies
- Understand the law of conservation of energy and the processes of heat transfer
- Use thermochemical equations to calculate energy changes that occur in chemical reactions and classify reactions as exothermic or endothermic
- Perform calculations involving heat, mass, temperature change, and specific heat
- Use calorimetry to calculate the heat of a chemical process
- Describe radioactive decay process in terms of balanced nuclear equations characteristics of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation
- Describe the characteristics of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation
- Compare fission and fusion reactions