In this chapter, you will learn about methods used to solve problems in chemistry. The chapter provides a three-step approach to problem-solving. The calculation step often uses conversion factors to express a given measurement in some other unit of measure. Dimensional analysis, one of the best approaches to problem solving, uses the units, or dimensions, of the measurements to analyze and solve problems. In this chapter, you will learn how to solve conversion problems using dimensional analysis.

In this chapter, you will learn: to use several problem-solving skills to describe the three-step problem-solving approach to construct conversion factors from equivalent measurements to apply techniques of dimensional analysis to solve problems by breaking the solution into steps to convert complex units using dimensional analysis