This document summarizes key concepts in thermochemistry, including: 1) Energy can be transferred as heat or work. The SI unit of energy is the joule. Internal energy is the sum of kinetic and potential energies within a system. 2) Enthalpy is a measurement of energy for chemical reactions that takes into account heat and pressure-volume work. It can be used to determine if a reaction is endothermic or exothermic. 3) Calorimetry is used to measure enthalpy changes through determining heat flows during chemical reactions. Hess's law allows calculation of enthalpy changes for reactions using known enthalpies of individual steps.