Cracking the SAT Chemistry Subject Test

VOLUME Again, suppose we’re thinking about a sample of matter—solid, liquid, or gas. When we say volume, we’r ...

DENSITY The property of density is intrinsic to a substance; substances such as water, lead, carbon diox ...

Density Y = = 3 g/mL All this means is that every 1 mL of substance X weighs 4 grams, and eve ...

PRESSURE When test writers say “pressure,” they are usually talking about (1) the force that a sample of gas in ...

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So, what units do we use to express pressure? A few. There are torr, millimeters of mercury (mmHg), and atmo ...

ENERGY You will have to know a few things about energy for the SAT Chemistry Subject Test. First, remember ...

TEMPERATURE AND SPECIFIC HEAT What exactly is heat? When you touch something warm, you feel heat, but wha ...

For example, it takes 1 calorie of heat to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C. So we sa ...

Notice that this is the same equation we just gave you. We just shuffled things around a bit. Carbo ...

HOW THE SAT CHEMISTRY SUBJECT TEST WILL TEST YOU ON ALL THIS The SAT Chemistry Subject Test writers sometimes ma ...

DRILL 1 Question Type A Questions 1–4 refer to the following. (A) Volume (B) Temperature (C) Density (D) Pressure (E ...

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Two solid objects are of equal volume, but object A has density = X, and object B has density = (0.5)(X). ...

Summary Mass is a measure of the amount of matter in a sample and is measured in grams or kilograms. Volume ...

Part II Subject Review 4 Atoms: The Building Blocks of Matter 5 Chemical Reactions and ...

Chapter 4 Atoms: The Building Blocks of Matter Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Understanding the str ...

ATOMS AND ELEMENTS An element is any substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance by ...