Introduction
Required Materials
The required textbook for this course is the Chemistry: Matter and Change by Thandi Buthelezi, Laurel Dingrando, Nicholas Hainen, Cheryl Wistrom, and Dinah Zike (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008, ISBN 978-0-07-874637-6).
For lab assignments, you will need some basic equipment, such as safety goggles, gloves (latex or rubber), a ruler, and tools for measuring volume and weight. These items, which will be listed in the instructions for each lab, are fairly inexpensive and easy to find at a hardware store. You might even find some materials around your house!
Browsers and Math Fonts
This course is designed to work best in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Many of the math symbols throughout this course may not display correctly in other browsers, particularly the Chrome browser. Make sure you are using the latest version of Firefox, available as a free download at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/.
To view this course properly, you will need to have MathML fonts installed. If you do not already have these installed, you will get an error message letting you know. You can find the fonts at this website: Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla.
