Year 11 Chemistry thoughts?

[Stick]

One thing which I didn't pay much attention to was the very end of Unit 1 about surface tension and nanoparticles. Is this relevant for next year?

[Jenny_2108]

One thing which I didn't pay much attention to was the very end of Unit 1 about surface tension and nanoparticles. Is this relevant for next year?

I'm doing unit 4 and dont know what that is. Hence, its not really relevant though

[Limista]

One thing which I didn't pay much attention to was the very end of Unit 1 about surface tension and nanoparticles. Is this relevant for next year?

Nup - VCAA just put that in the 1/2 course as a joke  , but once again, I didn't find it funny 

[Lasercookie]

One thing which I didn't pay much attention to was the very end of Unit 1 about surface tension and nanoparticles. Is this relevant for next year?

Nup - VCAA just put that in the 1/2 course as a joke  , but once again, I didn't find it funny 

I'm not sure what you mean. Not everything is about Units 3/4. They're different units for a reason, if they were the same you might as well skip 1/2 and just do 3/4.

As an aside, I'm not sure how you could not like surface tension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension#Effects_in_everyday_life

[Amber Fluid]

Is unit 1 very introductory?

[Limista]

Is unit 1 very introductory?

Not too sure what you mean by this. But I can tell you what we cover in unit 1:

* history of the atom (at my school we did this in year 10 as well for science) ~ don't need to know this for year 12 though
* relative atomic mass and the mole
* periodic table with Mendeleev and Moseley ~ I don't think this is required for year 12?
* a bit of stoichiometry (even though this is actually covered in Unit 2)

Just a list that's off the top of my head, but if you really want to know, check out the VCAA study design for unit 1 on their website 

[charmanderp]

It's pretty easy stuff and not really consequential at all to year 12 Chem, I found, although having somewhat of a solid foundation in stoich is helpful.

[paulsterio]

Is unit 1 very introductory?

Not really, it's important foundation work