OpenStax: Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e
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This interactive eText combines the content of OpenStax’s Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e with the dynamic engagement features of Top Hat to create a rich, accessible, and affordable learning experience. Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e is an atoms-first adaptation of OpenStax Chemistry 2e. The intention of “atoms-first” involves a few basic principles: first, it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters. This approach may be chosen as a way to delay the introduction of material such as stoichiometry that students traditionally find abstract and difficult, thereby allowing students time to acclimate their study skills to chemistry. Additionally, it gives students a basis for understanding the application of quantitative principles to the chemistry that underlies the entire course. It also aims to center the study of chemistry on the atomic foundation that many will expand upon in a later course covering organic chemistry, easing that transition when the time arrives.
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Table of Contents for OpenStax: Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1: Essential Ideas
- Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
- Chapter 3: Electronic Structure and Periodic Properties of Elements
- Chapter 4: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
- Chapter 5: Advanced Theories of Bonding
- Chapter 6: Composition of Substances and Solutions
- Chapter 7: Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
- Chapter 8: Gases
- Chapter 9: Thermochemistry
- Chapter 10: Liquids and Solids
- Chapter 11: Solutions and Colloids
- Chapter 12: Thermodynamics
- Chapter 13: Fundamental Equilibrium Concepts
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