THE PARTICULATE NATURE OF MATTER

• What is a Matter?

   

  • Matter is the most common ingredients of the Earth
• • Matter includes things we can see and touch (water, earth, and trees) as well as we cannot (air).
• • Matter is anything that occupy space and mass
• What is CHEMISTRY

   

  • Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes it undergoes.
  • MATTER is the HEART and SOUL of chemistry
• Which is NOT matter?

   

  • ENERGY is not a matter. (Heat, Light and sound)
• • Energy enable us to do work. It drives us to perform our jobs

   
• So what is the source of energy?

   

  • It comes from the food we eat, drink and vitamins we take.
• • SOUND is not a matter.
  • We are able to hear sounds. But we cannot touch and see them.
  • We cannot carry them but, we can carry some things that produce sounds like radio and cassette. These things are matter but sound is not.
• • Light produced is not a matter
  • Lightning, Lighted bulbs twinkling stars, The sun and the moon give us light. These are examples of matter, But the light produced us not.
  • Because we can see it but we cannot touch it.