Going Through Phases...
Gas Laws, Phase Changes, Bonds and Energy, Entropy and Driving Forces

Wave your hand in the air in front of you!  Swing your hand into a dishpan full of water (but devoid of dishes)!  Pound your hand on the table.  You know there is a very different response with each action.  Every day as we interact with our physical world, we are constantly experiencing these differences  in large part due to the phase of the material being used. We are going to investigate some of these differences in properties and work to understand the relationship between these phases of matter.  

Our physical world is made of primarily 3 different phases - gases, liquids, and solids.  We are going to begin to look at how those phases relate to each other by studying the gas phase first.  After which, we will look at how liquids and solids come to be by understanding how intermolecular connections are made.  Finally we will relate this concept of bonding both intermolecular and intramolecular to the issue of energy.