Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry
1.1Solids, liquids and gases
Solids, liquids and gases in Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 1.1.1State how solids, liquids and gases differ in their properties.
- 1.1.2Describe the arrangement, separation and movement of the particles in solids, liquids and gases.
- 1.1.3Describe melting, boiling, evaporating, freezing and condensing as changes of state.
- 1.1.4Describe how the volume of a gas changes when its temperature or pressure changes.
- 1.1.5Supplement: explain changes of state using the kinetic particle theory, including what heating and cooling curves show.
- 1.1.6Supplement: use the kinetic particle theory to explain how temperature and pressure affect the volume of a gas.
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Heating and cooling curves
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States of matter and the kinetic particle theory
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