AS Level Chemistry
Transition Work
1) Work through ‘Head Start to AS Chemistry’ by David Mason
ISBN: 978 1 84762 1160
Available from Amazon and other booksellers
for approximately £5.
Ideally you should work through all of the questions in the book and
check your answers as you go along. As a minimum you should
answer the questions on page 2 of this document and bring your
answers along to your first chemistry lesson in September.
2) The Text book for the course can be ordered through the College
when you start in September, If you wish to purchase it before then
the details are given below:
Edexcel A’ Level Chemistry 1
By Graham Curtis, Andrew Hunt and
Graham Hill
ISBN 978-1-4718-0746-6
Homework Task
Section 1 in Head Start (page 2)
1) Copy and complete the following Table using the Periodic Table (page 6)
Element
Symbol
Z
A
Potassium
Fluorine
K
19
9
6
13
39
Silicon
Number of ofNumber of ofNumber of of
protons
Neutrons
electrons
19
20
19
12
14
Si
26
Z = atomic number of an element; A = mass number of an atom
Section 2 in Head Start (Page 7)
2) Draw a dot and cross diagram showing how a calcium atom reacts with an
oxygen atom to form Calcium Oxide.
Section 3 in Head Start (page 15)
3) Draw a dot and cross diagram of water
4) Draw a dot and cross diagram of Carbon Dioxide
5) Draw giant covalent structures of diamond and graphite
Section 7 in Head Start (pages 30-31)
6) Write a balanced equation for the reaction of potassium with hydrochloric
acid
7) Write a balanced equation for the reaction of calcium with hydrochloric
acid
Section 8 in Head Start (page 32)
8) Calculate empirical formula of the lead oxide that contains 26g of lead to
every 2g of oxygen
Please complete this task and bring to your first chemistry lesson in
September