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General chemistry : principles, patterns, and applications.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Open Textbook Library.
- Open textbook library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--Textbooks.
- Chemistry.
- Chemistry, Technical.
- Environmental chemistry.
- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.
- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical--Textbooks.
- Environmental chemistry--Textbooks.
- Chemistry, Technical--Textbooks.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : color illustrations.
- Updated irregularly.
- Distribution:
- Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, Virginia : Saylor Academy, 2011-
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "The overall goal of the authors with General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications was to produce a text that introduces the students to the relevance and excitement of chemistry. Although much of first-year chemistry is taught as a service course, Bruce and Patricia feel there is no reason that the intrinsic excitement and potential of chemistry cannot be the focal point of the text and the course. So, they emphasize the positive aspects of chemistry and its relationship to students' lives, which requires bringing in applications early and often. In addition, the authors feel that many first year chemistry students have an enthusiasm for biologically and medically relevant topics, so they use an integrated approach in their text that includes explicit discussions of biological and environmental applications of chemistry. Topics relevant to materials science are also introduced to meet the more specific needs of engineering students. To facilitate integration of such material, simple organic structures, nomenclature, and reactions are introduced very early in the text, and both organic and inorganic examples are used wherever possible. This approach emphasizes the distinctions between ionic and covalent bonding, thus enhancing the students' chance of success in the organic chemistry course that traditionally follows general chemistry. Finally, the authors made a conscious effort to treat material that has traditionally been relegated to boxes, and thus perhaps perceived as peripheral by the students, by incorporating it into the text to serve as a learning tool."--Open Textbook Library.
- Contents:
- Introduction to chemistry
- Molecules, ions, and chemical formulas
- Chemical reactions
- Reactions in aqueous solution
- Energy changes in chemical reactions
- The structure of atoms
- The periodic table and periodic trends
- Ionic versus covalent bonding
- Molecular geometry and covalent bonding models
- Gases
- Liquids
- Solids
- Solutions
- Chemical kinetics
- Chemical equilibrium
- Aqueous acid-base equilibriums
- Solubility and complexation equilibriums
- Chemical thermodynamics
- Electrochemistry
- Nuclear chemistry
- Periodic trends and the s-block elements
- The p-block elements
- The d-block elements
- Organic compounds.
- Notes:
- This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.
- Description based on online version, v. 1.0, 2012; Title from PDF (viewed on July 18, 2016)
- ISBN:
- 1453322302
- 9781453322307
- OCLC:
- 953695326
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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