This is a wonderful reference for General Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry students. The chem1 virtual textbook was written by retired Chemistry professor Stephen Lower from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby Canada. This self-published textbook only exists online. It was designed to supplement an assigned textbook or serve as a replacement.
Lower began writing this textbook in pieces to replace course materials he found lacking. His students would be given these materials as “assigned reading”. In time, Lower replaced the textbooks he disliked with his own and suggested students use another textbook to supplement his work. (Lower does not recommend a specific textbook. He only makes the suggestion that students would be better served using more than one – a learning strategy I heartily embrace and the basis for building The Free Textbook List.)
The table of contents for this general chemistry textbook appears as if there are missing chapters. The best I can tell, it is complete. You can access the textbook online or download what appears to be a copy of the complete website for offline viewing.
Table of Contents for chem1 Virtual Textbook
- beginner / First Semester
- 1. What is Chemistry all about, anyway?
- 2. Getting started in Chemistry: essential background
- 3. The basics of atoms, moles, formulas, equations
- 4. What is pseudoscience?
- First-semester general chemistry
- 5. Getting serious about atoms
- 5a. Primer on quantum theory of the atom
- 5b. Atomic structure and the periodic table
- 5c. Why doesn’t the electron fall into the nucleus?
- 6. Properties of gases: matter at its simplest
- 7. Solids and liquids
- 7a. States of matter
- 7b. Solutions: their chemistry and physical properties
- 8. Chemical bonding and molecular structure
- 8a. Three views of chemical bonding
- 8b. All about chemical bonding
- 9. All about acids and bases
- Second Semester / advanced
- 20. All about chemical equilibrium
- 21. Acid-base equilibria and calculations
- 22. Chemical Energetics
- 23. Thermodynamics of chemical equilibrium
- 24. All about electrochemistry
- 26. Chemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms
- Advanced / miscellany
- 30. The measure of matter
- 31. The fall of the electron (oxidation-reduction)
- 32. Survey of Environmental Geobiochemistry
- 33. Understanding entropy
- 40. Advanced aquatic chemistry
- 40a. Acid-base chemistry of natural aquatic systems
- 40b. Carbonate equilibria in natural waters
- 40c. Redox equilibrai in natural waters
- 40d. Solids in contact with natural waters
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chem1 virtual textbook
