Chemistry
Energy, Matter, and Change

Providing a holistic overview of general chemistry and its foundational principles, this textbook is an essential accompaniment to students entering the field. It is designed with the reader in mind, presenting the historical development of ideas to frame and center new concepts as well as providing primary and summative sources for all topics covered. These sources help to provide definitive information for the reader, ensuring that all information is peer-reviewed and thoroughly tested.

Features:

? The development of key ideas is presented in their historical context.

? All information presented is supported through citations to chemical literature.

? Problems are incorporated throughout the text and full, worked-out solutions are presented for every problem.

? International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry style and technical guidelines are followed throughout the text.

? The problems, text, and presentation are based on years of classroom refinement of teaching pedagogy.

This textbook is aimed at an advanced high school or general college audience, aiming to engage students more directly in the work of chemistry.

Contents

Introduction

Attribution

Acknowledgements

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Chapter 1 Introduction, sustainability, conventions, and writing

Chapter 2 Energy

Chapter 3 Atoms

Chapter 4 Binding energy, nuclear stability, and decay

Chapter 5 Nuclear reactions

Chapter 6 Light and electrons

Chapter 7 Electrons and quantum numbers

Chapter 8 Periodic trends

Chapter 9 Bonding

Chapter 10 Molecular shapes

Chapter 11 Gases

Chapter 12 The van der Waals equation and intermolecular forces

Chapter 13 States, phases, and physical changes

Chapter 14 Chemical kinetics

Chapter 15 Enthalpy

Chapter 16 Entropy

Chapter 17 Gibbs energy

Chapter 18 Equilibrium

Chapter 19 Electron transfer

Chapter 20 Electron sharing

Appendices

Answers to in-text problems

William Tucker's passion for chemistry was inspired by his high school teacher Gary Osborn. He left Maine to pursue Chemistry at Middlebury College, and after graduating in 2010 he decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Sandro Mecozzi, where he developed semifluorinated triphilic surfactants for hydrophobic drug delivery. After earning his Ph.D. in 2015, he took a fellowship at Boston University as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow. There he co-taught organic chemistry while working in the laboratory of Dr. John Caradonna. In the Caradonna laboratory, he worked on developing a surface-immobilized iron-oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of C・H bonds using dioxygen from the air as the terminal oxidant. Throughout all of this work, his passion has always been for teaching and working with students both in and out of the classroom. He has been lucky for the past six years to work at Concord Academy, where his students have, through their questions, pushed him to think deeper and more critically about chemistry. Their curiosity inspires him, and their inquisitiveness inspired his writing.